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

On Oct. 15, the Afro-American society, Al-Nur Muslim Student Association, Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective and Spare Rib Magazine held a vigil for Marcellus Williams ... Associated Press.

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

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

Death row survivors, families of murder victims ... after Owens' execution in South Carolina and the execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri. Williams was convicted in 1998 for murder ...

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

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. Louis ...

[AP Photo/Susan Walsh] Two weeks earlier, the Court refused to stop Missouri from executing Marcellus Williams ... innocence throughout 25 years on death row, and has been involved in multiple ...

A pastor ordained while he has languished on death row for almost 30 years is among convicted offenders now facing the prospect of executions being restarted in a US state.

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. Louis ...

He was sentenced in 2003 for the death of his two-year-old daughter ... the Supreme Court declined to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams, a black man convicted of murdering a journalist ...