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 ...

Two weeks later, pathologist Keith Norman Norton, M.D., evaluated the remains of a “well-developed, obese man,” ruling that ...

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A Missouri Lieutenant has been found guilty in the death of a diabetic inmate.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lance Shockley is set to be executed on Oct. 14, 2025. As a public defender for 24 years, including five as director of the Missouri State Public Defender System, Mary Fox sought to educate juries—and ...

In response to questions from The Marshall Project - St. Louis in October about how Missouri prison deaths are tracked and recorded, the research team at the Missouri Department of Corrections ...

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 ...