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...

By JIM SALTER  (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The Missouri Department of Corrections said Tuesday it is switching to a new lethal injection drug, less than two weeks after the governor halted executions until it...

By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday halted what was to have been the first U.S. execution to use the popular anesthetic propofol, following threats from the European Union...

By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The Missouri Department of Corrections said Wednesday that it will return a shipment of a common anesthetic it intended to use for executions, nearly a year after the...

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, Mo., AP) — Missouri will move ahead with two planned executions despite efforts in Europe to block a common anesthetic from being used in the procedure, Gov. Jay Nixon...