T he Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be innocent, leaving his fate in the hands of the US Supreme ...

(AP) — The Missouri Supreme ... in the hearing before the state Supreme Court. Williams, 55, is set to die by injection Tuesday evening for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in University ...

(AP) — A Missouri man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the ... that put Williams on death row — an unprecedented combination.

Scalia’s Atkins dissent, moreover, doesn’t simply disagree with the Court’s past decisions. It lays out many examples of how the law would change — and how much easier it would be to subject even ...

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

The Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court’s decision blocking a death row inmate’s execution because he says he’s intellectually disabled, ordering the lower court to issue a clearer ...

Convicted murderer beat victim with hammer and saw IQ scores at issue in legal fight over death sentence Atlanta-based ...

Richard Moore is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection for fatally shooting a Spartanburg County store clerk.

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, it has become more difficult in some states to obtain birth control as ...