The state of Missouri put him to death despite serious questions about the evidence against him, jurors’ misgivings, and the ...

For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...

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

24 in Missouri despite protests from the case’s prosecutors and the victim’s family, according to the Associated Press. Williams spent 20 years on death row after being found guilty in 2003 of killing ...

The victim, Felicia Gayle was found stabbed to death in her home in August of 1998. Her murderer left behind fingerprints, footprints, hair and a trace of DNA on the murder weapon; however ...

The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to delay the execution. Williams was originally charged with the 1998 murder of Felicia ...

in 1977 who was convicted of the murder and mutilation ... a Black man from Missouri, was executed in the killing of a newspaper reporter named Felicia Gayle in 2001, despite the fact that his ...

There is no doubt that Williams was innocent of the 1998 murder of St. Louis reporter Felicia Gayle. None of the physical evidence—bloody fingerprints, footprints and hairs—tied him to the ...

Chilling new details have emerged in the case of the missing Missouri soldier who was found dead in a dumpster shortly after she mysteriously vanished from an army base. The body of Sergeant ...