The state of Missouri put him to death despite serious questions about the evidence against him, jurors’ misgivings, and the ...

Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective and Spare Rib Magazine held a vigil for Marcellus Williams. Williams was executed on Sept. 24 in Missouri despite protests from the case’s prosecutors and ...

When someone’s eyes linger on the mutilated body of Emmett Till, “justice” is the last word anyone would think. Yet, it was ...

The case of Marcellus Williams is a blatant miscarriage of justice ... Too often our government’s approach to death row is to kill first and think later, resulting in racially biased modern-day ...

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

Abolitionists will have to play defense at the federal level, and plot a long-term strategy for ending the death penalty in ...

Richard Moore, 59, is set to be executed by lethal injection on Friday for the 1999 slaying of a convenience store clerk, ...

The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...

The United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to the ultimate punishment. One state has executed by ...

The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn ... from authorities to review his case. In September, Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection in Missouri after St.

A Texas death row inmate whose execution was recently halted ... Citing opposition to the death penalty and doubts about Williams’ guilt, a local and national outcry did not stop the execution ...