The state of Missouri killed a 55-year old man in retribution for a murder that he almost surely did not commit.

It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man,” Clint Eastwood’s grizzled gunslinging character mused in the 1992 western classic ...

Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people – Amber McLaughlin, ...

Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and ...

Five death row inmates were put to death in the US over the past week, a pace unprecedented since July 2003. With the deaths ...

Cole claimed that Williams admitted to the murder of Gayle, while both Williams and Cole served time for other charges. Lara ...

Dozens of people had slowly lined up in front of  Missouri governor Mike Parson’s office last Tuesday, holding papers covered with thousands of signatures advocating for the halting of the execution ...

the silhouettes of their bond visible still at the last glow of the sun they experience each other and the life of the night as it begins to stir standing there in silence holding hands no rush to go ...

All five men were executed within one week in five different states, a period political scientist Austin Sarat condemned as ...

The former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist has been accused of distracted driving in the death of a California man earlier this year.

The execution—one of a recent spate across several states—has raised questions about the future of the death penalty in ...

In a shocking case of what I consider state-sanctioned murder, Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Sept. 24, despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence. No physical evidence ever connected ...