Next to Die

A move to abolish the death penalty in the Show-Me State is getting a hearing before a Missouri Senate committee.Senate Bill 816 is sponsored by Sen. Paul…

Reginald Clemons may get a new trial.In a 4-to-3 decision Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court tossed out both his conviction and death sentence in the…

A Missouri death row inmate scheduled for execution next week has been spared, as Gov. Jay Nixon has commuted his sentence to life without parole.Kimber…

Updated 6/10/2015, 12:58 a.m. -- Richard Strong has been executed, less than an hour after Gov. Jay Nixon denied a clemency request and the U.S. Supreme…

(Updated 4/15/2015, 1:12 a.m.) Missouri has carried out its third execution of the year.Andre Cole died by lethal injection at the Eastern Reception,…

Updated at 12:17 a.m., Wed., Feb. 11 -- Walter Storey's execution was carried out at 12:01 a.m. by lethal injection, according to a brief statement from…

Just hours before it was scheduled to begin, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed Missouri inmate Mark Christeson's execution. He was set to be put to death for…

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…