capital punishment

Currently in Missouri, a person can be sentenced to death even if they have a serious mental illness. Rep. Tom Hannegan, R-St. Charles, sponsored a bill…

A Kansas man who raped, killed and dismembered a 16-year-old girl and beat an 80-year-old woman to death is among the first five federal death-row inmates…

Death penalty opponents have cited a Missouri man's recent sentence in efforts to change state law regarding capital punishment.Missourians for…

Even as the number of executions is set to hit a 25 year-low in the U.S., the use of the death penalty is on the rise globally. One country that is…

The Supreme Court says lower courts should look again at an appeal from a Missouri man on death row for killing a woman and her two children 16 years…

A federal appeals court in St. Louis has set a September hearing in the case of a Missouri man whose late May execution was delayed by the U.S. Supreme…

Missouri's attorney general says the state should establish its own laboratory to produce chemicals for use in executions rather than rely on an "uneasy…

What happens now to a Missouri inmate after a rare last-minute stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court will be up to other judges.The Supreme Court…

Oklahoma, a state with numerous ties to the controversy over Missouri's lethal injection procedures, on Tuesday night botched what the state had hoped...

A Missouri Republican is proposing legislation intended to speed executions of those who kidnapped their murder victims.The legislation would limit…