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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The public reaction to McCaffrey's execution contributed to the success of a movement to end the death penalty in Wisconsin ...

Missouri executed Williams despite questions about his conviction and protests from prosecutors and victim's family.

Marcellus Williams, an innocent man, was executed despite evidence of his innocence. Blame falls on Trump, McConnell, and the conservative Supreme Court.

The Republican nominee for Missouri governor wouldn’t say whether he supported or opposed Marcellus Williams’ execution, ...

Williams’s fate was tangled up in a mess of mistakes and legalisms that obscured what should have been obvious. He died ...