One day before the scheduled execution of a Missouri man convicted of killing a state trooper two decades ago, Gov. Mike ...

Even though the jury that convicted him could not reach agreement on his death sentence, a man is set to be put to death next ...

State lawmakers have taken up President Trump’s aggressive push to expand the use of the death penalty, setting up legislative and legal battles that could make a wider range of crimes subject to ...

Silently marching into the governor’s office, Missourians advocating for the pardon of Lance Shockley turned in 31,000 ...

Silently marching into the governor’s office, Missourians advocating for the pardon of Lance Shockley turned in 31,000 ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has rescheduled the execution of Lisa Montgomery, a convicted murderer and the only woman on federal death row, to take place on Jan. 12, a few days before Joe Biden is ...

The two lead lawyers for Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, asked a U.S. judge on Thursday to delay Montgomery's execution next month because they have contracted COVID-19 after ...

A jury convicted Joshua Rocha of first-degree murder Wednesday. The jury was chosen from the St. Louis area and will determine if Rocha lives the rest of his life in prison or heads to death row.

Shockley is scheduled to die by lethal injection a week from today. He was convicted in the 2005 murder of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. Petitioners today ask for DNA ...

In 2002, Robert Roberson’s chronically ill 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, was sick with a high fever and, he said, suffered a ...

Austin police outlined how a new, rapidly unfolding DNA and ballistics evidence trail led them to declare a dead man as the ...

Four teenage girls were killed at an Austin yogurt shop in 1991, a crime that has haunted the city for decades.