Death penalty in Missouri Missouri executed four people in 2023. Amber McLaughlin, Michael Tisius, Johnny Johnson and Leonard Taylor, who maintained that he was innocent, all died by lethal injection.

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the ...

Death penalty in Missouri Missouri executed four people in 2023. Amber McLaughlin, Michael Tisius, Johnny Johnson and Leonard Taylor, who maintained that he was innocent, all died by lethal injection.

Missouri plans to execute death row inmate Brian Dorsey for the 2006 murders of his cousin and her husband, but a clemency petition shows scores of people have asked Gov. Mike Parsons to spare his ...

The Legal Defense Fund’s Death Row USA report showed 2,180 people with pending death sentences this year, down from 3,682 in 2000. Missouri’s peak year was 1997, when 96 people were on death row.

The Death Penalty Information Center maintains a list of executed people who had “strong evidence of innocence”; it numbers 20 cases, almost all of which are from the past few decades.

The fight to save a Muslim man convicted of murder in the state of Missouri, even though prosecutors said he may be innocent, ended Tuesday night with the execution of Imam Marcellus Khalifah ...

Another reason to abolish the death penalty here: Four other Missouri prisoners were exonerated from death row, according to DPIC.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.