A Missouri lawmaker says the state should not decide which prisoners live or die for their crimes. Alisa Nelson talks to St. Louis Representative Jim Murphy, who is proposing to end the death penalty because he says one life taken is one too many.
When a jury does not reach a unanimous decision in first-degree murder cases, current Missouri law still allows trial judges to sentence defendants to death. Alisa Nelson talks to Representative Bishop Davidson about his bill that would ban judges from issuing death...
The daughters of a man Missouri plans to execute Tuesday for killing his girlfriend and her 2-year-old daughter want his life spared, even though one of them was there the night of the murders. Richard Strong brutally stabbed and slashed 23-year-old Eva Washington and...
The State Supreme Court has set a date for the execution of convicted murderer Leon Taylor. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection just after midnight, September 10, at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center at Bonne Terre. Taylor was convicted...
A federal judge in California has ruled that state’s death penalty takes so long to be carried out it breaks the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling could have an impact on cases in Missouri. The judge ruled that delays of 25 years or...
