A bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers and religious leaders want to abolish the death penalty, citing its financial and human costs.

Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners' requests for DNA testing in recent ...

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...

Missouri’s long-running debate over the death penalty returned to the Capitol on Monday, as Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis County, pushed once again to abolish it. He said one myth is that executions ...

JEFFERSON CITY — A new bill that seeks to abolish the death penalty in Missouri was heard in committee Monday. Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis, is bringing House Bill 2153 forward for the second year in ...

Missouri lawmakers are pushing to eliminate the state's death penalty.

For the first time in a decade, a proposal to abolish the death penalty in Missouri received a committee hearing, with religious leaders appearing alongside Republican and Democratic lawmakers in ...

The Archbishop of St. Louis made a rare trip to the Missouri State Capitol Monday to testify in support of legislation that would abolish the state’s death penalty.

A House Bill seeking to abolish the death penalty and set the maximum sentence to life in prison without parole is on the move in this year’s General Assembly. Sponsored by the 94th District’s Jim ...

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