The move could affect plans to execute two prisoners in March. "This case has always been about Louisiana’s execution ...

Could the death penalty be used as a punishment in Missouri for people charged with first-degree crimes of statutory rape or ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 55-year-old female inmate died early Thursday morning in her cell at the Clay County Detention Center. The cellmate of Wende K. Routh told detention center staff Routh was having ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here ... Last August, the Supreme Court refused to halt the execution of another man on Missouri’s death row, Johnny Johnson, who had argued he ...

An aerial view of Moberly Correctional Center in Randolph County (Missouri Department of Corrections photo via Facebook). James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended ...

Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001.

Marion Bowman Jr also died by lethal injection. He was sentenced to death after he was convicted of shooting and killing a friend. Police found the victim's body in a burned out car in 2001. Following ...

James Pointer’s life sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections ended abruptly last week when he bled to death from an opening ... dirty prison floor,” the inmate wrote.

(CNN) — More than 150 female prisoners were raped and burned to death during a jailbreak last week when fleeing male inmates set fire to a prison in Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of ...