O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — The pause in U.S. executions during the coronavirus pandemic likely will end Tuesday with the scheduled lethal injection of a Missouri inmate for slaying an elderly woman nearly ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo.(AP) — A Missouri man who long maintained his innocence was executed Tuesday for the fatal shooting of a state trooper more than 20 years ago. Lance Shockley, 48, was pronounced dead ...

Marcellus Williams is set to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former newspaper reporter. A Missouri man seeking to avoid execution suffered dual ...

The Missouri Department of Corrections is switching to a new lethal injection drug, less than two weeks after Gov. Jay Nixon halted executions until a replacement for propofol was found. The ...

Missouri executed a man early Wednesday who was convicted of a brutal home-invasion murder 24 years ago after a divided U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the execution over concerns about Missouri's ...

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday halted the scheduled execution of condemned inmate Marcellus Williams after DNA testing raised questions about whether he actually killed. Just hours before ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a Missouri murderer's bid to avoid execution by lethal injection because it might rupture blood-filled tumors on his body due to ...

He told authorities in a videotaped confession he rear-ended Morton's car on an exit ramp, then abducted her and killed her because he feared he would be sent back to prison. David Zink, 55, was ...

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday denied a clemency request for white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, calling his crime a “cowardly and calculated shooting.” Franklin, 63, is scheduled ...