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

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

As Florida inserts a needle to deliver a fatal drug to Anthony Wainwright, Alabama will strap a mask on Greg Hunt and pump him with nitrogen gas.

South Carolina’s electric chair is located in Columbia at the Broad River Correctional Institute. The state has not carried out an execution since May 2011. The death penalty is on hold while ...

BENTONVILLE -- A Missouri man pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge accusing him of providing the drugs that caused a man's overdose death. Gage William Carl Hill, 22, of Seligman, Mo., is charged ...

Terry Pitchford, convicted of murder in 2006 and sentenced to death, says jury selection excluded Black jurors. He hopes the U.S. Supreme Court will help.

Updated: Jun 18, 2025 / 11:02 AM CDT SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A couple from St. Louis, Missouri, are accused of endangering their five-month-old child, resulting in his death in December 2022.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - On Wednesday, a group of prison reform advocates gathered virtually to speak out against the death penalty in Mississippi.

Arkansas death row inmate Latavious Johnson died of unknown causes at the Varner SuperMax prison on Friday afternoon, according to the state’s department of corrections. He was in his 40s. The ...

"It seems to me there's enough days in the year that executions shouldn't have to be stacked on top of each other," said the Rev. Jeff Hood, a death row spiritual adviser who has witnessed nine ...