Missouri executed a death row inmate for fatally shooting a state trooper in 2005. The inmate, Lance Shockley, says he did ...

A hostage situation at a southern Missouri prison is over after an hours-long ordeal, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections. Officials said an offender at the South Central Correctional ...

About 15 minutes later, the Missouri State Highway Patrol SWAT team and the Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT) ...

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 ...

UPDATE 2:30 PM: The hostage has been released and the suspect is in custody, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Karen Pojmann, Communications Director for the Missouri Department of ...

Law enforcement is responding to a hostage situation at the South Central Correctional Center in Licking, Missouri, involving ...

Judy Henderson spent 35 years in prison for a murder conviction, despite maintaining that she was innocent. Freed by the Missouri governor, Henderson's new autobiography “When the Light Finds Us,” ...