Prosecutors and the victim’s family urged that he be spared based on DNA evidence showing that Williams was in fact innocent.

The 55-year-old was sentenced to death in 2001 for killing Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter found dead in her gated ...

Marcellus Williams had always maintained that he had nothing to do with the stabbing death of a former St. Louis ...

If carried out as planned, the executions will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five executions were held in ...

Prosecutors and family members of the victim had asked for a halt to Williams' execution sentence. He died by lethal injection Tuesday evening.

A Missouri man has been executed for the 1998 fatal stabbing of a woman despite calls by her family and the prosecutor's ...

A judge accepted a plea of no contest last month which would have spared Marcellus Williams’ life, but that deal was scuttled ...

Marcellus Williams' attorneys have said that his DNA wasn't found on the murder weapon and that his jury trial was unfair.

Marcellus Williams is set to die by lethal injection in the 1998 fatal stabbing of former reporter Lisha Gayle inside her St.

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle.

Just a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, Missouri officials executed Marcellus Williams ...