In a defensively dominated showdown, Missouri’s “Death Row Defense” provided just the right ingredients for an improbable ...

A prominent Catholic anti-death penalty group is urging outgoing President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of the 40 ...

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

A recent rash of executions and high profile death penalty cases with credible claims of innocence show just how hard it is ...

Despite thousands of signatures and calls for change, Governor Henry McMaster did not grant Richard Moore clemency Friday, ...

South Carolina executes death row inmate Richard Moore as governor rejects plea to reduce his sentence to life ...

Richard Moore was sentenced to death in 2001 by a nearly all-white jury for a robbery gone bad following a trial that lasted ...

The last Black man on South Carolina's death row to be convicted and sentenced by an all-white jury, according to his ...

Sandra Hemme with her family and lawyers outside the Missouri Court of Appeals in downtown Kansas City before oral arguments in her case. The Missouri Court of Appeals Tuesday rejected all ...

Brady Cook came sprinting out of the south end zone tunnel, more than two hours after leaving the game, and brought Missouri football back to life. Back to life from down two touchdowns ...

The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread ... In September, Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection in Missouri after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney ...

Texas is planning to execute a death row inmate Thursday whose case has ... In September, Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection in Missouri after St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney ...