Left, Vera Thomas and Reynolds Thomas at a rally in St. Louis Wednesday

JEFFERSON CITY — The parents of death row inmate Reginald Clemons traveled to the state Capitol today to urge Gov. Jay Nixon to spare their son’s life.

They had to settle…

Skillcorn

JEFFERSON CITY — Gov. Jay Nixon won’t step in to stop the execution of Dennis Skillicorn.

In a statement released late today, Nixon said he was denying Skillicorn’s clemency petition. Skillicorn is scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. tomorrow for the…

JEFFERSON CITY — A week before Missouri’s first planned execution in over three years, the House this morning rejected a plea for a death penalty moratorium.

The 95-64 vote followed an emotional debate in which legislators took turns arguing for crime…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Death penalty opponents gathered in the Illinois state Capitol Thursday to mark the ten-year anniversary of the last execution in the state and to push a measure to abolish capital punishment.

Illinois currently has a death penalty moratorium,…

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois House committee this morning unanimously approved legislation to crack down on lawyers, investigators and others milking the state for exorbitant expenses in death-penalty trials, the result of a Post-Dispatch expose’ last year.

The newspaper reported in…