Louis Till's ring, which was returned to Till-Mobley after his execution, was used to identify Emmett Till's body after he was killed. Louis Till's conviction and execution also came up after the ...

John Edgar Wideman probes the separate killings of Louis and Emmett Till, father and son.

Six decades after Emmett Till 's murder, and seven decades after Louis Till was executed by the U. S. Army, John Edgar Wideman investigates whether the father, like the son, suffered a perversion ...

John Edgar Wideman talked about his book [Writing to Save a Life: the Louis Till File], in which he discusses the execution of Louis Till by the U.S. Army in 1945 and the impact that it had on the ...

Police are looking into calls for chaos on social media in the wake of Tuesday evening's execution of 55-year-old Marcellus Williams at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

A decade before his teenage son was lynched in Mississippi, Louis Till was serving overseas in World War II. Writing to Save a Life explores how Till was convicted of rape and murder and put to death.

Justice Department's closure of Emmett Till case ends what little hope for justice that remained more than 65 years after the 1955 lynching.

Who Was Mamie Till? Mamie Till was born in Mississippi in 1921, moving to Illinois as a child in the Great Migration, where she would meet her first husband, Louis Till.