Death Penalty

The Rev. Darryl Gray has seen Missouri’s death penalty firsthand. He prays for its abolition.

Amber McLaughlin, 49, becomes the first openly transgender woman to be executed in the U.S.

Barely one month after Kevin Johnson, another St. Louis County defendant is scheduled to be executed.

Despite great difficulty obtaining drugs for lethal injection, states like Missouri keep killing. The result: botched executions and increased secrecy.

Prosecutor Bob McCulloch was in Bonne Terre to witness the execution.

A special prosecutor appointed by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, which secured Johnson’s conviction, concluded that “racist prosecution techniques infected Mr. Johnson’s conviction and death sentence.” The Missouri Supreme Court on Monday denied motions to halt his execution, which is scheduled for Tuesday.

DNA analysis reveals that many people in prison are not guilty. Could death-row inmate Marcellus Williams be one of them?

All-white juries continue to sentence Black defendants to death — because the legal system allows it.

Ousted after Ferguson, Bob McCulloch's most lasting legacy may be his insistence on the death penalty.

St. Louis Public Radio is publishing a series of stories, in collaboration the River City Journalism Fund, that analyzes the use of the death penalty in St. Louis County, which has sentenced more people to death than any other Missouri county since 1976.