Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christopher Collings, who was convicted in a southwest Missouri murder and sentenced to the death penalty, was executed Tuesday.

Christopher Leroy Collings, a father of two daughters convicted in the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl in 2007, is set to be executed in Missouri on Tuesday. Collings lost his last chances at a ...

A Missouri inmate was executed Tuesday for the 2007 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who knew him as “Uncle Chris” — with the killer telling observers he hopes to see them “in heaven one day.” ...

The body of 9-year-old Rowan Ford was found in a sinkhole near Powell, Mo. in November 2007 Missouri Department of Corrections via AP Christopher Collings, a Missouri death row inmate convicted of ...

Missouri executed death row inmate Christopher Leroy Collings on Tuesday, 17 years after he confessed to raping and killing his friend's 9-year-old stepdaughter. Collings, 49, was executed by lethal ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Rowan Ford knew Christopher Collings as “Uncle Chris” after he spent several months living with her family. On Tuesday, Collings was executed for sexually assaulting and ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri man is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday evening for sexually assaulting and strangling a 9-year-old girl whose body was thrown into a sinkhole.