A group of protestors braved the elements in Columbia on Tuesday night to protest the execution of a Missouri man.

A plea deal spared him from the death penalty. Houseman was kidnapped from her school bus stop in St. Ann, Missouri, in ...

Missouri has executed its fourth state prisoner this year. Christopher Collings, 49, was declared dead at 6:10 p.m. Tuesday ...

Christopher Collings became the fourth person this year to die by lethal injection in Missouri on Tuesday. Missouri is among ...

Collings allegedly confessed to the 2007 killing of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in southwestern Missouri. So did the girl’s stepfather, David Spears, now 42. Initially, Spears also faced the possibility ...

Missouri is among the most prolific of all U.S. states when it comes to the death penalty; it was one of only five states to carry out executions in 2023, carrying out four that year.

The Missouri Supreme Court reversed two death-penalty cases secured by McCulloch’s office after Williams’s trial because of “racially discriminatory strikes” of Black prospective jurors.

In fact, the annual report about all of this from the Death Penalty Information Center shows that Missouri, Texas and Florida accounted for 80 percent of the executions in 2014. It’s a ...