Lethal injection is tainted with error, ineptitude and secrecy that's led to many botched executions and unnecessary suffering. Missouri passed a law shielding the identity of the people involved in ...

Missouri denied condemned men their chosen spiritual advisers despite Ramirez ruling. Missouri kept 2013 execution protocols and hasn't updated them after Ramirez. Advocates say denials violate rights ...

Summer Shockley with her father, Lance Shockley during a visit at Potosi Correctional Center, in 2024. Lance Shockley executed on Oct. 14, 2025, for the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman. Of ...

Two inmates have been executed an hour apart during what's expected to be the single busiest month for the death penalty in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Florida executed Samuel Lee Smithers on Tuesday ...