Death Penalty

Legal questions surrounding Michael Brown’s death and events in Ferguson again dominated the conversation among our legal roundtable.Justice Department…

Missouri prison officials said under oath that they would not use midazolam in executions. But a St. Louis Public Radio investigation revealed last week…

No state has carried out more executions than Missouri this year. Early this morning, Missouri carried out its eighth execution of 2014.Earl Ringo was put…

(Updated at 2:50 p.m., Tues., Sept. 9.) Even as the state prepares for another execution at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, two separate cases charge that the…

(Updated at 10:01 a.m., Sat., Sept. 6 with the attorney general's response)Lawyers representing inmate Earl Ringo are asking a federal judge to halt his…

(Updated at 10:51 am, Thurs., Sept. 4 with further response from the Department of Corrections)In Ohio, the execution took 26 minutes, as the inmate…

For the fourth time this year, an inmate's lethal injection did not go as planned. Last night, it was Arizona, but the state has company.An Ohio inmate…

Late Wednesday, Missouri executed John Middleton, 54, after courts debated whether he was mentally competent as well as claims that he was actually…

Missouri is one of several states that are buying their execution drugs in secret. This week, the issue is getting some national attention.Missouri Gov.…

Missouri carried out another execution early Wednesday. It was the state's fifth this year, and the nation's second since Oklahoma botched an execution in…