Summer Shockley with her father, Lance Shockley during a visit at Potosi Correctional Center, in 2024. Lance Shockley was sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman (photo ...

A Franklin County jury has recommended the death penalty for a Hermann man found guilty in the murder of Sgt. Mason Griffith.

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former newspaper reporter who was found brutally stabbed in her suburban St.

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HOUSTON (AP) -- The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states, including Alabama, which became the first state to use ...

For death penalty opponents, the dramatic spike in executions last year was truly horrifying. After several years of no more than 25 executions, there were 47 executions in 2025, nearly double the ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Putting one foot in front of the other for 30 miles, a group is walking across central Missouri to send a message about the death penalty. A group of Missourians against ...

ST. LOUIS – Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for two men charged in a 2023 murder outside a St. Louis County gas station. On Thursday, a “government’s notice of intent to seek the death ...

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