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Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — One day before the scheduled execution of a Missouri man convicted of killing a state trooper two decades ago, Gov. Mike Kehoe announced his decision to deny clemency. Lance ...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Bryant chooses firing squad execution for Nov. 14, becoming the third this year to ...

Charles Crawford, 59, died of lethal injection yesterday at the Mississippi State Penitentiary after serving 30 years on ...

A man who has insisted upon his innocence in the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman is scheduled to be executed next week, even though the jury that convicted him could not reach agreement on ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Putting one foot in front of the other for 30 miles, a group is walking across central Missouri to send a message about the death penalty. A group of Missourians against ...

Because this is the first execution under Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe ... Officials with the prosecutor’s office who sent Williams Sr. to death row later tried to stop the execution because of questions ...

Summer Shockley with her father, Lance Shockley during a visit at Potosi Correctional Center, in 2024. Lance Shockley executed on Oct. 14, 2025, for the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman. Of ...