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

The state of Missouri killed a 55-year old man in retribution for a murder that he almost surely did not commit.

Marc M. Howard is a professor of government and law at Georgetown University, where he directs the Prisons and Justice ...

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

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

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

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

At least 17 are dead and a manhunt is underway in a small village in South Africa after a mass shooting Saturday.

More than half of American states have abolished the death penalty or hit pause on executions. Less than half —47%—of ...

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

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

A Senate report details Secret Service slip-ups. A man whose conviction was called into question is executed in Missouri.