The acquittal also highlighted Japan’s notoriously slow and severe legal system, in which conviction rates can exceed 99 percent and retrials are rare. Only five death sentences have been overturned ...

Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of ...

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

No more state-sanctioned barbarity. No more killing of innocent people like Marcellus Williams. Abolish the death penalty.

The judge said the court acknowledged multiple fabrications of evidence and that Iwao Hakamada was not the culprit, his ...

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

Williams' attorneys argued that the ex-girlfriend and cellmate were convicted felons who wanted part of a $10,000 reward.

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 ...

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 ...