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

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

Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri on Tuesday. Around the nation and world, his death was met with condemnation.

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

Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson, a former sheriff who has never granted clemency in a death penalty case, rejected ...

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

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.

Hope lingers for Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams who was convicted of the 1998 murder of local news reporter ...

The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors ...