Following the court's ruling, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson confirmed the state will carry out Williams' execution on Tuesday.

A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections ...

A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections ...

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

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

The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not ...

Marcellus Williams had long proclaimed he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis, Missouri, ...

Missouri Gov. Parson is ordering U.S., state flags be flown at half-staff in honor of Kansas City Fire Department firefighter ...

Williams was executed despite pleas for clemency from prosecutors and family members of murder victim Felicia Gayle.

Marcellus Williams was convicted in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in Missouri, but DNA testing raised questions.