Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - Missouri officials are pressing forward with the Wednesday execution of convicted killer Michael ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (CN) - Missouri today carried out the first execution in the country since a botched execution in Arizona in July highlighted problems with the process. Michael Worthington, 43, was ...

Michael Worthington, convicted in the 1995 rape and murder of a St. Louis woman, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. Updated 6:58 a.m. E.T. on Aug. 6 An execution Wednesday in Missouri brought the ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. - A Missouri man was put to death Wednesday for raping and killing a college student in 1995, making him the first U.S. prisoner executed since a lethal injection in Arizona last ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. – A Missouri inmate was put to death Wednesday for raping and killing a college student in 1995, making him the first U.S. prisoner put to death since an Arizona lethal injection went ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. -- A Missouri man was put to death Wednesday for raping and killing a college student in 1995, making him the first U.S. prisoner executed since a lethal injection in Arizona last ...