Death Row

Missouri has executed a convicted murderer who maintained his innocence for more than two decades, despite last-minute appeals from both defence and prosecution lawyers for a delay. Marcellus Williams, 55, was already serving a lengthy prison sentence for burglary offences when he was convicted in 2

A prisoner with learning disabilities who spent 40 years on death row, including 16 in solitary confinement, has been granted parole in Texas, The Times reports. Bobby Moore, 60, was sentenced to death in 1980 for killing a supermarket worker in a robbery in Houston.

A Scots law student is set to spend the summer working with a death row project in America. Iain Mathieson, who graduated from Dundee University in 2018, will be working with the Arizona Capital Representation Project as a caseworker, assisting the organisation in its death penalty litigation work.