Anti-death penalty advocates gathered at the Missouri Capitol on Tuesday, urging Governor Mike Kehoe to stop the scheduled execution of Lance Shockley, convicted in the 2005 murder of a Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Shockley has maintained his innocence. Missouri...
A Missouri death row inmate has died in prison. Citing federal court records, the Kansas City Star reports that Jesse Driskill, 43, died June 12th at the Potosi Correctional Center, located about 70 miles southwest of St. Louis. Corrections officials have not...
The Missouri Department of Corrections has teamed up with a St. Louis nonprofit organization to offer computer programming classes to some state prisoners nearing release. In 2018, the nonprofit, called LaunchCode, tested out the program within Potosi Correctional...
A Missouri prisoner who was 16 when she killed a man during a meth transaction in western Missouri’s Cass County will remain in prison for now, under a key ruling Tuesday from the Missouri Supreme Court. The inmate, 41-year-old Jessica Hicklin, was sentenced in...
The State Supreme Court is reviewing an appeal from a convicted murderer that could overturn mandatory life without parole sentences for all teens convicted of first-degree murder in Missouri. The case involves 43-year-old David Barnett, who’s serving life without...
