Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, left, traveled to the Capitol this week in support of a bill that ...

Anti-capital punishment advocates say the death penalty is costlier to taxpayers than life in prison because many defendants appeal their sentences, and the appeals process can force victims’ families ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Missouri’s lawmakers were forced to grapple with religion and morality as they debated a bill to abolish the death penalty Monday afternoon. For the first time in a decade ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Missouri bill to end the death penalty is getting its first public hearing. House Bill 2153, introduced by State Rep. Jim Murphy (R-St. Louis), would remove the death ...

During Lance Shockley's final moments in Missouri's execution chamber in October 2025, he wanted his daughter, an ordained minister, by his side as his spiritual adviser. A few years earlier, the U.S.

JEFFERSON CITY — A new bill that seeks to abolish the death penalty in Missouri was heard in committee Monday. Rep. Jim Murphy, R-St. Louis, is bringing House Bill 2153 forward for the second year in ...

There are 32 attorneys, investigators and specialists in the Missouri State Public Defender Office dedicated to preventing the wrongful execution of innocent people on death row. The agency spends ...

March 31, 1992, the battleship USS Missouri was decommissioned for the second and final time. The ‘Mighty Mo’ was the scene of the Japanese surrender ending WWII and is now a permanent museum in Pearl ...