By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The nation's shortage of execution drugs is becoming increasingly acute as more pharmacies conclude that supplying the lethal chemicals is not worth the bad publicity...

(BONNE TERRE, Mo., AP) — In 1991, Herbert Smulls called jeweler Stephen Honickman and set up an appointment to meet at his store in suburban St. Louis. He said he wanted to buy a diamond for his fiancee. It...

By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on two petitions regarding Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls, The Missouri Attorney General's office says. Smulls'...

By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics...

By JORDAN SHAPIRO (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court set a Feb. 26 execution date for a man who pleaded guilty in the 1989 abduction, rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old Kansas...

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri could carry out executions with firing squads under legislation proposed in the House. The state currently puts inmates to death with injections of lethal drugs,...

By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Once one of the most active death penalty states in the U.S., Missouri carried out its first execution in nearly three years Wednesday after turning to a compounding...

By JIM SALTER (BONNE TERRE, Mo., AP) — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put to death Wednesday in Missouri,...

By JIM SALTER ST. LOUIS, AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday denied a clemency request for white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, calling his crime a "cowardly and calculated shooting." Franklin,...

By MICHELLE L. PRICE (SALT LAKE CITY, AP) — The head of the NAACP's Salt Lake City branch is asking Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to commute a death sentence for a white serial killer who authorities say was...

By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — Serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin is getting support from an unlikely source: Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, who was paralyzed 35 years ago by a bullet apparently...

By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Health care workers, medical groups and even a few patients pressured Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon before he halted what would have been the first execution with...