For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time.

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. The lethal injection of ...

The Missouri Supreme Court Building in Jefferson City on March 12 (Clara Bates/Missouri Independent). A Missouri man who was sentenced to death by a trial judge in 2009 despite a jury deadlocking on ...

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the law changed in 1984, at least 18 people have been sentenced to death by a ...