Death Penalty

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…

Updated at 5 p.m. with comment from Williams' lawyer, governor's office — The Missouri Supreme Court will not stop next week's scheduled execution of…

Missouri corrections officials are not required to disclose the identities of the pharmacists who supply the state’s lethal execution drugs, an appeals...

Updated Jan. 31, 9:34 p.m. - The state of Missouri has carried out its first execution since May of 2016.According to a statement from the Department of…

Updated at 12:00 p.m. with comments from Clemons' supporters. — Missouri's attorney general will be taking over the retrials of Reginald Clemons.St. Louis…

On the latest edition of the Politically Speaking podcast, St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum and Jo Mannies are pleased to welcome back state Sen.…

Ernest Lee Johnson came within minutes of being executed last November when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay.He challenged Missouri's use of…

A legal challenge to Missouri’s execution protocol brought by four taxpayers has been rejected by the Missouri Court of Appeals. In a decision Tuesday,...

Updated 11:15 p.m. - Missouri has carried out its first execution of the year.Earl Forrest was put to death by lethal injection at the Eastern Reception,…