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By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The nation’s shortage of execution drugs is becoming increasingly acute as more pharmacies conclude that supplying the lethal chemicals is not worth the… Read more »
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Missouri executes man after appeals denied
(BONNE TERRE, Mo., AP) — In 1991, Herbert Smulls called jeweler Stephen Honickman and set up an appointment to meet at his store in suburban St. Louis. He said he… Read more »
Scheduled Missouri execution temporarily stayed
By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on two petitions regarding Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smulls, The Missouri Attorney General’s… Read more »
States consider reviving old-fashioned executions
By JIM SALTER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back… Read more »
Execution set in Kansas City abduction, killing
By JORDAN SHAPIRO (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court set a Feb. 26 execution date for a man who pleaded guilty in the 1989 abduction, rape and… Read more »
Mo. bill would allow execution using firing squad
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri could carry out executions with firing squads under legislation proposed in the House. The state currently puts inmates to death with injections of lethal… Read more »
Mo. may carry out more executions using new method
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Once one of the most active death penalty states in the U.S., Missouri carried out its first execution in nearly three years… Read more »
Missouri executes serial killer Franklin
By JIM SALTER (BONNE TERRE, Mo., AP) — Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who targeted blacks and Jews in a cross-country killing spree from 1977 to 1980, was put… Read more »
Missouri gov. denies clemency for serial killer
By JIM SALTER ST. LOUIS, AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Monday denied a clemency request for white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin, calling his crime a “cowardly… Read more »
NAACP asks Missouri governor to halt execution
By MICHELLE L. PRICE (SALT LAKE CITY, AP) — The head of the NAACP’s Salt Lake City branch is asking Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to commute a death sentence for… Read more »
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