Essay: Addicted to death – America’s 2024 killing spree
In an article first published on Religion News Service, SHANE CLAIBORNE, activist, author and co-director of Red Letter Christians, says there hasn’t been that many executions in the US in one week in more than 20 years…
Missouri man executed despite prosecutor’s opposition
Reuters A Missouri man was executed on Tuesday, according to the state’s Department of Corrections, even though the prosecutor’s office that secured his murder conviction 21 years ago expressed doubts about the integrity of the case and the victim’s family said he should be spared. The US Supreme Court, the last body that could have […]
Interfaith advocates urge clemency for ‘death row imam’ a day before scheduled execution in US state of Missouri
RNS Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, an imam at Missouri’s Potosi Correctional Center, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, 24th September, even as his lawyers and advocates continue to argue his trial was plagued with racial bias and procedural errors. The Missouri Supreme Court met Monday to discuss the arguments in Williams’ case, a day before […]
Essay: Why support for the death penalty is much higher among white Americans
In an article first published on The Conversation, KEVIN O’NEAL COKLEY, director of the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin, looks at the connections between the death penalty and issues like race and gender in the US…