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?

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 ...

spoke at a rally to support Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams on Aug. 21, 2024. / Credit: Jim Salter/Associated Press "Marcellus Williams should be alive today," Bell said in a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Amid a controversial Netflix series and high-profile support, the siblings convicted of murdering their parents may soon walk. But that could present a double standard.

Marcellus Williams was convicted of the crime of murdering Felicia Gayle. Williams spent two decades on death row, but throughout those two decades, he maintained his innocence and appealed the ...

He’s speaking of Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate who was executed the day before we speak, despite his 2001 murder conviction being contested and subject to high-profile calls for ...