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 ...

Last month, the state of Missouri executed 55-year-old Marcellus Williams, who spent two decades in prison, despite prosecutors’ efforts to overturn his conviction for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a unanimous opinion, the Missouri Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Sandra Hemme, 64, was wrongly convicted of murder and she should be freed. In a single sentence, the Missouri Court of Appeals ...

In a single sentence, the Missouri Court of Appeals changed the trajectory of Hemme’s life. “Hemme’s 1985 conviction of capital murder in Buchanan County, Missouri… is vacated,” the ...