That Williams was executed is an American tragedy, but he is not alone. The American death penalty system has shown itself to ...

The death penalty fails to deliver true justice or enhance safety. Instead, it operates as a form of politically motivated ...

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...

It’s a hell of a thing, killing a man,” Clint Eastwood’s grizzled gunslinging character mused in the 1992 western classic ...

Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people – Amber McLaughlin, ...

Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and ...

Five death row inmates were put to death in the US over the past week, a pace unprecedented since July 2003. With the deaths ...

Cole claimed that Williams admitted to the murder of Gayle, while both Williams and Cole served time for other charges. Lara ...

Dozens of people had slowly lined up in front of  Missouri governor Mike Parson’s office last Tuesday, holding papers covered with thousands of signatures advocating for the halting of the execution ...

All five men were executed within one week in five different states, a period political scientist Austin Sarat condemned as ...

The execution—one of a recent spate across several states—has raised questions about the future of the death penalty in ...

In a shocking case of what I consider state-sanctioned murder, Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Sept. 24, despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence. No physical evidence ever connected ...