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Prosecutor to seek death penalty in Missouri officer’s death
A Missouri prosecutor has announced plans to seek the death penalty against a Kansas City man charged with fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop.
Death’s decline: The death penalty remains in full effect in Missouri, but its use is dwindling
Missouri is a national outlier in its use of the death penalty. But even as support for it remains high among elected officials, its use is far rarer than it once was.
Missouri remains rare state with judge-imposed death sentences
Missouri law allows judges to impose the death penalty when the jury is unable to agree on punishment. Only one other state has a similar law.
Supreme Court sets June 6 execution date for Tisius
The Missouri Supreme court has scheduled a June execution date for Michael Andrew Tisius.
Supreme Court rules for Arizona inmate in death penalty case
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday for a man on Arizona's death row who wants a new sentencing hearing because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
Jury recommends death for St. Louis man who killed 4
Jurors recommended the death penalty Tuesday for a St. Louis area man who killed his girlfriend, her two children and her mother.
Execution set for Missouri inmate who killed ex-girlfriend
The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday set a January execution date for Scott McLaughlin, who was convicted of raping and killing an ex-girlfriend 19 years ago.
Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals
A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana.
Doctors: Execution drugs could help COVID-19 patients
Secrecy surrounding executions could hinder efforts by a group of medical professionals who are asking the nation’s death penalty states for medications used in lethal injections so that they can go to coronavirus patients who are on ventilators, according to a death penalty expert and a doctor who’s behind the request. In a letter sent […]
Florida Supreme Court on the death penalty: We got it wrong
The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday it erred in 2016 when it ruled a jury must be unanimous in deciding a convicted murderer should be sentenced to death, announcing a dramatic legal reversal that could affect dozens of death row cases. The opinion pulled back from the court’s 2016 state Supreme Court decision that subsequently […]
Report: 5th straight year with under 30 executions in US
Fewer than 30 people were executed in the United States and under 50 new death sentences were imposed for the fifth straight year, part of a continuing decline in capital punishment that saw only a few states carry out executions, a new report said. But even as death row populations were dropping in most of […]
Report: 5th straight year with under 30 executions in US
Fewer than 30 people were executed in the United States and under 50 new death sentences were imposed for the fifth straight year, part of a continuing decline in capital punishment that saw only a few states carry out executions, a new report said. But even as death row populations were dropping in most of […]
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