Marcellus Williams is set to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former newspaper reporter who was repeatedly stabbed during a burglary of her ...

DNA evidence found on the murder weapon does not match that of Marcellus Williams, who is slated to be put to death Tuesday.

The Missouri Supreme Court and Republican Gov. Mike Parson have rejected requests to halt Williams' execution, ...

The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson each denied requests from an inmate seeking to cancel his scheduled execution for a 1998 murder.

Marcellus Williams, the Missouri death row inmate who has maintained his innocence for nearly 24 years, is scheduled to be ...

The execution of Marcellus Williams will proceed today, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in a decision rejecting efforts to ...

Missouri is set Tuesday to execute Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate whose case has spurred several efforts to save his ...

Felicia “Licia” Gayle was found stabbed to death in her suburban St. Louis home in 1998. Marcellus Williams says he didn’t ...

Instead, Republicans have shown they don’t trust voters to make up their own minds. They have deluded themselves into thinking they know best and they’ll prevail by taking away voters’ choices. It’s ...

The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty ...

Death row inmates in five separate states are set to be put to death in the span of one week. If carried out as planned, the ...

Missouri governor and state Supreme Court both refuse to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams KY3′s Mark Spillane and ...