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

Missouri has executed its fourth state prisoner this year. Christopher Collings, 49, was declared dead at 6:10 p.m. Tuesday ...

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

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

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 ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man facing the death penalty for sexually assaulting and killing a child was a frequent victim of ...

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 ...

which considers St. Louis County's use of the death penalty. A Missouri inmate who fought his death sentence up until the final hour of his life was executed by the Missouri Department of ...