lethal injection

A condemned Missouri inmate faces a potentially "gruesome and painful" execution because of a rare medical condition that compromises the man's veins and…

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ST. LOUIS - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to halt Earl Forrest's execution hours before the Missouri man is scheduled to die by injection.The court…

A lawsuit against Missouri over lethal injection policies for executions has been dismissed.Cole County Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce on Monday dropped the…

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…

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…

The Missouri Supreme Court has set an Aug. 6 execution for a St. Louis area man convicted of raping and killing a neighbor nearly two decades ago. Michael…

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…

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…