Lance Shockley died by lethal injection last year. State courts have rejected prisoners' requests for DNA testing in recent ...

There are 32 attorneys, investigators and specialists in the Missouri State Public Defender Office dedicated to preventing ...

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...

Missouri lawmakers are pushing to eliminate the state's death penalty.

JEFFERSON CITY — A new bill that seeks to abolish the death penalty in Missouri was heard in committee Monday. Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis, is bringing House Bill 2153 forward for the second year in ...

Religious leaders are giving a bill to abolish Missouri's death penalty the support needed to push it forward.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri lawmaker is looking to end Missouri’s death penalty under a new bill filed in the House. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis County, would ...

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.

>> LOOK AT THIS BEHIND US. THIS IS THE NUMBER OF DEATH PENALTY EXECUTIONS IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE 1977. YOU SEE THE LATE 90'S. THAT WAS THE PEAK. BUT THEN A GRADUAL DECLINE. >> THAT IS UNTIL NOW. THIS UP ...