Execution

(Last updated Jan. 30, 2014)

On Tuesday, the Missouri Department of Corrections announced that it had selected a new drug for upcoming executions: pentobarbital.The change comes…

Judge rules that the CVC must release more Dome documentsThe St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission is being ordered to release more documents…

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is urging the State Supreme Court to set execution dates for 19 death sentences. Koster says no legal barrier is…

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…

UPDATED 6:08 p.m. Jan. 10, 2011 with comment from Clay's attorney:Last week we told you that supporters of Richard Clay asked Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon to halt…

The ACLU of Eastern Missouri says it has learned that the state is running out of its supply of one of the three drugs used in executions.The ACLU says…