death penalty

As preparations for a man’s execution begin, his pen pal is hoping she will be able to speak with him for the last time tonight.Rita Linhardt of…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Attorneys for Missouri death row inmate Earl Ringo Jr. are asking Gov. Jay Nixon to halt the execution scheduled for next week over…

A motion for judgment has been filed in a lawsuit accusing the state of violating Sunshine Laws for refusing to provide information related to Missouri...

The Missouri Supreme Court has canceled an execution for one death row inmate and scheduled a different man to be put to death next month. The court on…

A Missouri inmate has been put to death for raping and killing a neighbor in 1995, the first lethal injection in the U.S. since an execution in Arizona…

The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to intervene in the scheduled Missouri execution of an Illinois man condemned to death in the 1995 killing of a…

Death-row lawyers and other opponents say the nation's third botched execution in six months is more evidence for the courts that lethal injection carries…

For the fourth time this year, an inmate's lethal injection did not go as planned. Last night, it was Arizona, but the state has company. An Ohio inmate...

Late Wednesday, Missouri executed John Middleton, 54, after courts debated whether he was mentally competent as well as claims that he was actually...

Missouri carried out another execution early Wednesday. It was the state's fifth this year, and the nation's second since Oklahoma botched an execution...