MISSOURI — More than 70% of countries around the world have effectively abolished the death penalty, including all but one European nation. The United States, however, is an outlier, particularly ...

A 56-year-old Missouri death row inmate’s life was spared on the eve of his execution, the Associated Press reports. Suggested Reading RFK Jr. and 15 Other Trump Picks Unprepared, Unfit for Their Big ...

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former newspaper reporter who was found brutally stabbed in her suburban St.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri lawmaker is looking to end Missouri’s death penalty under a new bill filed in the House. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis County, would ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri death row ...

Missouri families traveled to prisons for restoration visits and final goodbyes. Relatives described shared meals, games and prayers to seek closure. Surviving family members reported grief, therapy ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Putting one foot in front of the other for 30 miles, a group is walking across central Missouri to send a message about the death penalty. A group of Missourians against ...

Missouri would be first state to force execution by lethal gas. July 10, 2013— -- Twenty-one inmates on Missouri's death row have sued the state's Department of Corrections in federal court, ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe denied clemency in the first execution of his tenure. Missouri is moving forward with an execution Tuesday evening. Lance Shockley is scheduled to ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. • A Missouri death row inmate who says execution drugs could interact with his medical condition is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene. Ernest Lee Johnson The Columbia Daily ...

A man who has insisted upon his innocence in the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman is scheduled to be executed next week, even though the jury that convicted him could not reach agreement on ...