A Missouri man has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after the state's top court and governor both rejected requests to stop his scheduled execution. Marcellus Williams, 55, is scheduled ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured on July 30 in Washington, D.C. Conservative justices on the court are facing backlash after declining to issue a stay on the execution of Marcellus Williams, who ...

JEFFERSON CITY — Marcellus Williams' attorneys pleaded with the Missouri Supreme Court on Monday to stay his scheduled Tuesday execution for the brutal 1998 killing of former Post-Dispatch ...

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Supreme Court on Monday will hear an appeal in the case of Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, who is set to be executed Tuesday after a circuit judge upheld his ...

The Supreme Court allowed Missouri to execute Marcellus Williams on Tuesday for a 2003 murder, ... and United States Representative Cori Bush of St. Louis asking for mercy.

Marcellus Williams, convicted in 2001 of killing former newspaper reporter Felicia Gayle, was executed Tuesday evening, a little more than an hour after the Supreme Court’s conservatives ...

Williams, who is Black, was sentenced to death in 2001 by a jury made up of 11 white people and one Black person. United States District Judge Rodney Sippel on Tuesday denied that motion because he ...

Marcellus Williams executed despite strong evidence of innocence. ... However, unlike the United States Supreme Court, Parson seemed eager to explain why he was content to let it proceed.

Attorneys for Marcellus Williams have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution. Activists with the Abolitionist Action Committee stand outside of the U.S. Supreme Court Building on July ...

And the United States Supreme Court sat idly by." ... "The state of Missouri and our nation's legal system failed Marcellus Williams, and as long as we uphold the death penalty, ...