The state of Missouri killed a 55-year old man in retribution for a murder that he almost surely did not commit.
Missouri executed Williams despite questions about his conviction and protests from prosecutors and victim's family ...
Marc M. Howard is a professor of government and law at Georgetown University, where he directs the Prisons and Justice ...
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Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people – Amber McLaughlin, ...
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Five death row inmates were put to death in the US over the past week, a pace unprecedented since July 2003. With the deaths ...
Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and ...
Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...
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 ...
The recent news stories of three Black men reveal what happens when we don’t participate effectively in our government. The ...
A spree of five executions in the US has reignited both horror and interest in the death penalty - which is retained in 23 ...