The Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA report showed 2,180 people with pending death sentences this year, down from 3,682 in 2000. Missouri’s peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the ...

Ralph Menzies, a death row inmate who was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, is set to ...

Ralph Menzies, a death row inmate who was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Maurine Hunsaker in 1988, is set to appear in court on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court announced the upcoming execution date for Lance Shockley, 28. He is scheduled for lethal injection in ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has set an execution date for Lance Shockley, who was convicted of murdering a Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper in 2005, for October 14, 2025.

The Rev. Jeff Hood has witnessed 11 executions: four in Oklahoma, three in Alabama, two in Texas, one in Missouri and one in Florida.  The Rev. Jeff Hood is “determined to let people know you’re ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri 's status as one of the most active death penalty states is about to change for one simple reason: The state is running out of inmates to execute.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.