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 ...

Attorney General Todd Rokita has asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date for the man who killed a Dale, ...

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

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

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

Nearly five decades after being convicted of murder, a Mississippi man got executed. Can that happen in NJ, PA?

Joseph Prystash, the Houston-area hitman, was hired by a former Missouri City law enforcement officer to kill his wife during ...

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.