Twenty-six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 10 other people are scheduled to be put ...

Last year, Missouri executed four people. It was one of four states responsible for 76% of executions that year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Shockley would be the first person executed in Missouri this year, barring intervention from Gov. Mike Kehoe or the U.S. Supreme Court. Last year, Missouri executed four people.

Nationally, 18 people were executed in 2022, including two in Missouri. Kevin Johnson was put to death in November for the ambush killing of a Kirkwood, Missouri, police officer.

BONNE TERRE — A Missouri man convicted of killing his live-in girlfriend and her three young children was executed Tuesday despite his claims that he was in another state when the killings occurred.

Lingar was executed at 12:06 a.m. by lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his appeal on Tuesday and Gov. Bob Holden did not grant him clemency.

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri man has been put to death for the 1991 killing of an 11-year-old St. Louis girl. Missouri Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Cline says Martin Link died ...