This Is Why We Need to Abolish the Death Penalty

No more state-sanctioned barbarity. No more killing of innocent people like Marcellus Williams. Abolish the death penalty. Last night, Missouri state authorities executed Marcellus Williams after the US Supreme Court refused to delay his killing. In 2001, a court convicted Williams for the murder of Felicia Gayle, a forty-two-year-old reporter for the St Louis Post-Dispatch. [...]