Missouri’s peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row. After reaching a height of 98 U.S. executions in 1999, the annual number hasn’t topped 30 since 2014.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the ...

The Supreme Court announced the upcoming execution date for Lance Shockley, 28. He is scheduled for lethal injection in ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has set an execution date for Lance Shockley, who was convicted of murdering a Missouri State ...

Missouri is one of only two states in which judges can unilaterally impose the death penalty when a jury deadlocks on capital ...

The accomplice who paid a teenage hitman to kill a former cop's wife in 1994 has died on death row more than three decades ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri 's status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is running out of inmates to execute.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.