Marcellus Williams (L) and Travis Mullis (R) On Tuesday, within an hour of one another , two men were put to death by the states of Missouri and Texas. One was a black man that was convicted for the 1998 stabbing of a 42-year-old white female journalist, but whose case had such questionable evidence that the St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney recently submitted a joint motion with the defense counsel to overturn a court decision to reject the defendant's appeal. The other was a

Yesterday, 4 hours and 13 minutes before his scheduled execution, Julius Jones' sentence was commuted by Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Although Jones life has been spared, his case brings the issues with the death penalty back into the public discussion. Here are my reflections on the Jones case and the death penalty in general. The Facts of the Jones Case On July 28, 1999, Paul Howell was murdered outside his parents' h