The state of Missouri put him to death despite serious questions about the evidence against him, jurors’ misgivings, and the victim’s family asking that he be spared. Did he die an innocent man?

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

For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...

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

A recent rash of executions and high profile death penalty cases with credible claims of innocence show just how hard it is ...

On Aug. 11, 1998, Marcellus Williams was convicted for the death of Felicia Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis dispatch. The investigation had gone cold until an inmate by the name of Henry ...

the state executed Marcellus Williams late Tuesday afternoon. Despite protestations from the prosecutor’s office that sent him to death row and anti-death penalty advocates, as well as calls for ...

Moore's attorney describes a formerly addicted man who is now a devout Christian, a good father and a changed man. Only the ...

Visiting rival Marcellus executed a successful onside kick to begin the game Friday. Then, three plays into the Mustangs' opening drive, Skaneateles' Landen Brunelle suffered an ankle injury that ...

The Governor was asked by the Innocence Project and thousands of Americans to stop the killing of Marcellus Williams, who had been placed on death row in Missouri for the killing of Felicia Gayle ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — An orange glow spread over the hills at Marcellus Park on an early October evening as the Marcellus boys cross country team gathered at a pavilion following their race on senior ...