Capital Punishment

The Rev. Darryl Gray has seen Missouri’s death penalty firsthand. He prays for its abolition.

Updated at 7:45 p.m. with Barton's deathWalter Barton was executed Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre.Barton is the first person to be…

Updated at 5:15 p.m. with McCulloch statement — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens cited new DNA evidence in postponing Tuesday’s scheduled execution of…

Updated at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 21 with governor's office declining comment — A nonprofit that seeks to overturn wrongful convictions has asked Missouri Gov.…

Missouri will use two of its 34 vials of the sedative pentobarbital on Tuesday when it executes Marcellus Williams, who was convicted in the 1998 killing…

Missouri is the first state in the nation to change its protocol for executing prisoners from a three-drug cocktail to the single drug Propofol. The…

21 death-row prisoners are suing the director of Missouri’s Corrections Department over its new lethal injection drug.Director George Lombardi announced…

A House committee heard testimony Wednesday evening on legislation that would abolish the death penalty in Missouri. The bill would also commute sentences…

Legislation has been filed in the Missouri House that would abolish the death penalty.If the bill becomes law, any pending executions in Missouri would be…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 5, 2010 - Illinois' 10-year moratorium on executions has kept us from killing the wrongly…