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

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.

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

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

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

The Rev. Jeff Hood, a witness to 11 executions, plans to travel to Parchman to pray outside if Richard Jordan’s is executed ...

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

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.

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.