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 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alyssa O'Brien, a mitigation specialist at the federal defender office in the Western District of Missouri, speaks on Oct. 7 at ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who long maintained his innocence was executed Tuesday for the fatal shooting of a state trooper more than 20 years ago. Lance Shockley, 48, was pronounced dead ...

Laclede County deputies are investigating after the death of a woman on Friday, Jan. 9. According to a Laclede County Sheriff ...

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 ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has denied Craig Wood's appeal to have his death sentence overturned, affirming the lower court's ...

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 ...

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 ...