Oct. 23, 2024 17:37 PM EDT
A former Democratic prosecutor in St. Louis admitted she shouldn’t have used thousands of dollars in public funds to pay herself back after getting fined for mistakes while prosecuting a Republican governor, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
Kim Gardner resigned under fire...
Sep. 25, 2024 18:27 PM EDT
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — With the end of his life approaching, Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was offered an opportunity to make a final statement to the world.
His words were few — neither proclaiming innocence nor admitting guilt in the 1998 murder of Lisha...
Sep. 18, 2024 15:41 PM EDT
Executing a Black man in Missouri who says he was wrongfully convicted would amount to a “horrible miscarriage of justice,” the president of the NAACP said in a letter Wednesday calling on the governor to halt the execution planned for next week.
Prosecutors want to vacate the...