Missouri is among the most prolific of all U.S. states when it comes to the death penalty; it was one of only five states to carry out executions in 2023, carrying out four that year.

A group of protestors braved the elements in Columbia on Tuesday night to protest the execution of a Missouri man.

Christopher Collings, 49, is scheduled to die by an injection of pentobarbital Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne ...

Collings allegedly confessed to the 2007 killing of 9-year-old Rowan Ford in southwestern Missouri. So did the girl’s stepfather, David Spears, now 42. Initially, Spears also faced the possibility ...

Christopher Collings became the fourth person this year to die by lethal injection in Missouri on Tuesday. Missouri is among ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

Missouri and Tennessee — the latter in all cases but rape). Votes in other states came close to ending the death penalty. However, between 1917 and 1955, the death penalty abolition movement ...