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

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

the silhouettes of their bond visible still at the last glow of the sun they experience each other and the life of the night as it begins to stir standing there in silence holding hands no rush to go ...

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

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

For those not familiar with the facts of the 1998 case, Williams was convicted of stabbing 42-year-old Felicia Gayle 43 times with a butcher knife after breaking into her home and discovering her in ...

The State of Missouri executed Marcellus “Khalifah” Williams on Tuesday night despite knowing he was most likely innocent of ...

Candidates for Missouri attorney general are at odds over the office's handling of pleas to overturn prison convictions. The ...

Those eight words, released in a statement, were the last shared by Marcellus Willliams, a devout Muslim, an imam for prisoners and a poet before he was put to death at the Correctional Center in ...

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

No more state-sanctioned barbarity. No more killing of innocent people like Marcellus Williams. Abolish the death penalty.