Martin Luther King Jr. abhorred the death penalty. ... Well more than 50 percent of the 51 people on federal death row today are people of color, including 22 Black men.

This purported quote from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., expressing his viewpoint that he would not rejoice in the death of anyone, even an enemy, was widely circulated in the wake of the killing of ...

CLAIM: Photo shows Martin Luther King Jr. alive in a hospital bed after he was shot in 1968. He died in the hospital after he was suffocated with a pillow.

PolitiFact, Jan. 17, 2020, Fact-checking an old conspiracy about Martin Luther King Jr.’s death NPR, April 4, 2018, Despite Swirl Of Conspiracy Theories, Investigators Say The MLK Case Is Closed ...

As the King women gathered in the nation’s capital for the commemoration of the National Monument to Martin Luther King Jr. - they reflected on both his life and his death. To the world, Martin ...

To civil rights activist Heather Booth, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination felt like a rupture. “It was like the breaking of a dream, the breaking of our hopes,” Booth recalled in an ...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s confidant Andrew Young shares details about the hours leading up to the activist's assassination in a documentary re-airing on The CW Monday.

Forty-four years ago today, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was shot to death on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tenn. He was 39. A day after his assassination, The Washington Post ran a ...

Dexter Scott King, the youngest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, according to statements from his family and the King Center. The King Center confirmed in a statement the 62-year-old ...

Since he died in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr.'s children have faced the challenge of growing up without their father and within his shadow "What I didn’t want to be is a mini-Martin Luther King Jr." ...