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 ...

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 ...

A man who spent nearly 25 years on Missouri's death row was executed Tuesday for the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old girl who was waiting for a school bus. Roderick Nunley became ...

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, 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 ...

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former newspaper reporter who was found brutally stabbed in her suburban St.

Missouri is one of two states where, if a jury is deadlocked on whether to sentence someone to death, the judge can issue the death penalty. The bill also establishes an automatic record-clearing ...

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 ...

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 ...