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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…
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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…
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Death penalty opponents have cited a Missouri man's recent sentence in efforts to change state law regarding capital punishment.Missourians for…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Oklahoma, a state with numerous ties to the controversy over Missouri's lethal injection procedures, on Tuesday night botched what the state had hoped...
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A Missouri Republican is proposing legislation intended to speed executions of those who kidnapped their murder victims.The legislation would limit…