Following the end of closing arguments in the case of Kenneth Lee Simpson vs. the State of Missouri, jurors have now returned ...

Lance Shockley, 48, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday evening in Missouri. Photo courtesy of Missouri Department of Corrections/Website Oct. 14 (UPI) --Missouri on Tuesday executed ...

Officers are investigating a death at an apartment complex in O’Fallon, Missouri, early Thursday.

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 ...

Friends and relatives of the victim said he was a beloved community father figure and was 85 years old.

Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence. Since the law changed in 1984, at least 18 people have been sentenced to death by a ...

After repeated questions about missing deaths in the state’s existing logs, the department shared annual counts for the first time. How many people die each year in Missouri prisons? The question ...

A man who has insisted upon his innocence in the 2005 murder of a Missouri highway patrolman is scheduled to be executed next week, even though the jury that convicted him could not reach agreement on ...