CNN Courtesy Marcellus Williams legal team via CNN Newsource Marcellus Williams is set to be executed September 24 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle.

Hope lingers for Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams who was convicted of the 1998 murder of local news reporter Lisa Gayle despite lack of forensics linking him to the crime.

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 was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001 for the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in St. Louis.

The execution of a Missouri man convicted in a 1998 murder of a social worker is set to proceed as planned on Tuesday after the state’s Supreme Court and governor denied repeated requests to ...

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

A Missouri death row inmate set to be executed for a 1998 murder had an evidentiary hearing on Wednesday ordered by the State Supreme Court.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, and the Missouri Supreme Court denied clemency to Williams, the day before his set Sept. 24 execution.

Williams has long maintained he did not murder Felicia Gayle, a one-time reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who was found stabbed to death in her University City home in 1998.

The Supreme Court's denial ended Williams' decadeslong fight to prove his innocence after his conviction for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter.

A divided U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop the scheduled execution of Missouri defendant Marcellus Williams on Tuesday despite the local prosecutor's claims that Williams' murder trial and ...