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

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

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 ...

The Supreme Court allowed Missouri to execute Marcellus Williams on Tuesday for a 2003 murder, which he maintained he did not commit.

Earlier efforts to halt the execution were denied Monday by the Missouri Supreme Court and Republican Gov. Mike Parson. His execution is the third in Missouri this year, and among five taking place ...

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

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

Marcellus Williams, who spent more than two decades on Missouri’s death row convicted of a 1998 murder that he says he did not commit, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening after a lengthy and ...

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

Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained ...

From legal challenges to clemency from the governor, here are the ways Missouri inmates can attempt to get off death row.