David Hosier is scheduled for execution in Missouri on June 11, 2024 for the 2009 murder of Angela Gilpin.

David Hosier is deserving of mercy and compassion. Please share David's story.:

What YOU Can Do:

• Watch & share the clemency video. Read the clemency petition.
• Visit MADP's web page to learn more, access the toolkit, sign the MADP petition, and take additional action in this case.
• Sign DPA's petition for David Hosier.
• Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood is David's spiritual advisor. Click here to read his blog about the situation.

As a person who experienced an extremely traumatic event with the killing of his Law Enforcement father, I ask that you stop cycles of violence in Missouri by granting David Hosier Clemency. Please stop this scheduled execution.

David’s case highlights many of the flaws inherent in the death penalty system:

1. Despite the lack of direct evidence linking him to the crime, David was convicted based on circumstantial evidence. The State’s case relied heavily on an alleged motive. In fact, during the initial trial, David was offered a plea for Life without Parole indicating the State thought Life was an appropriate punishment for the crime at the time. David has maintained his innocence and did not confess.

2. The introduction of unreliable forensic evidence at David’s trial resulted in a fundamentally unfair trial. In the absence of an eyewitness or any physical evidence connecting Hosier to the crime, the state's conviction relied heavily on ballistics evidence. New evidence in forensic science casts doubts on the reliability of tool mark identification and courts are starting to question it because of testimony from scientific experts.

3. The death penalty is mostly imposed on poor people who cannot afford to hire an effective lawyer. the quality of a defendant's legal team often decides whether they receive a death sentence. Throughout his appeals, David’s attorneys raised several issues of ineffective counsel, including the fact that no medical doctors or psychiatrists were brought forward to support mitigation about David’s severe depression with psychotic features which was exacerbated by a stroke in 2007. This lack of adequate counsel is a key issue in the system.

In continuing to schedule executions, Missouri makes itself an outlier in its use of the death penalty. In fact, Missouri has been one of only a handful of states that has carried out executions in this decade.

The majority of other states are on a downward trend of executions, and increasingly, states are abolishing the practice altogether, including the southern state of Virginia, which repealed its death penalty law in 2021.

Please sign the petition asking Governor Mike Parson to do everything within his power to stop this execution, including issuing a stay, and seeking a path to clemency in the case.

Petitions will be delivered on your behalf in the days leading up to the execution.