The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams after the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop the execution. The Weekend co-hosts weigh in on this decision that occurred ...

This outcome did not serve the interests of justice.” Why are innocent people—and those with a good chance of proving their ...

The Supreme Court should have stayed Missouri's execution of the convict last week. A top prosecutor and the victim's family ...

Below is the prayer I offered at the vigil in support of clemency for Marcellus Williams on Tuesday, Sept. 24, outside the Governor's Office at the Capitol.

This was a lynching. Make no mistake, this was state-sanctioned murder of an innocent Black man. Governor Parson had the responsibility to save a life, and he didn’t. When DNA evidence exonerates a ...

Over 120 students and community members gathered during a candlelight vigil Friday at Library Mall in commemoration of ...

The Supreme Court’s divided decision this week allowing Missouri to execute a man for a 1998 murder even though his ...

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

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

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

Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that ...