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

A review of Ohio's death row in wake of Missouri execution Tuesday shows 114 inmates, including 8 from Franklin County and 2 ...

Deacon Dave Billips, with the Office of Peace and Justice with the St. Louis Archdiocese, holds a sign as he stands with protesters holding space to halt the ...

How can you execute a man when there is reasonable doubt?’ Obie Alexander, who spent nearly two decades in prison on a ...

In the U.S., a Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman's home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed by lethal ...

Marcellus Williams was executed by the state of Missouri on Tuesday, Sept. 24, despite concerns citing his potential ...

The Supreme Court didn't halt Marcellus Williams’ execution on Tuesday. This term it will take up another capital case, in ...

Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, an imam at Missouri’s Potosi Correctional Center, was executed on Tuesday, even as his ...

The public reaction to McCaffrey's execution contributed to the success of a movement to end the death penalty in Wisconsin ...

Questions are still swirling around the execution of a Missouri man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in 1998.

Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in the August 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle during a robbery of her suburban St. Louis home. He had long maintained his innocence.

Some progressives re-upped calls to abolish the death penalty, while conservatives lauded the execution for providing closure ...