There would be four legislators — two members of the Senate and two from the House ... Center in Bonne Terre on the day Ernest Johnson was executed. Barred from entering the prison that ...

There would be four legislators -- two members of the Senate and two from the House ... Center in Bonne Terre on the day Ernest Johnson was executed. Barred from entering the prison that ...

With the help of the national prison advocacy group FAMM, a coalition of state and national liberal and conservative groups are pressing for Missouri to join the 19 states and the District of ...

Sentenced to death for killing two children in 1963, Leon Tice's sentence was commuted a month before Iowa abolished capital punishment in 1965.

The guards’ union contract gives the final say to the arbitrators, a system that former prison leaders and lawmakers say hurts accountability. Three weeks after Brooks’ death, and three days after the ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said the autopsy results in the death of Robert Brooks, who was beaten by prison guards, should prompt the swift filing of criminal charges. By Ed Shanahan An autopsy ...

A third bill would require guilty verdicts of rape and sexual abuse against adults to carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years to life in prison ... House-wide vote. She suggested that the ...

An man convicted of murdering a woman after breaking into her apartment as she slept was put to death Thursday evening in ...

FILE - This image provided by the New York State Attorney General office shows body camera footage of correction officers beating a handcuffed man, Robert Brooks, 43, at the Marcy Correctional ...