Missouri is set to execute 55-year-old death row inmate Marcellus Williams on Tuesday evening — despite pleas from ...

Three cases remain before the U.S. Supreme Court. One was brought by St. Louis County prosecutors, who do not support ...

Two men on death row were to be executed Tuesday in the United States, including a Black man convicted of murder whose ...

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

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

With new DNA evidence and racial bias concerns, Williams faces lethal injection for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle.

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

"No jury nor court, including at the trial, appellate, and Supreme Court levels, have ever found merit in Mr. Williams' ...

A Missouri man is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes at the last minute, even though the prosecutor's office that secured his murder conviction 21 years ago ...

The state of Missouri is set to execute Marcellus Williams in just a few hours. Both the Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike ...

The case raises the specter of potentially putting an innocent person to death, an inherent risk of capital punishment. At least 200 people sentenced to death since 1973 were later exonerated, ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted of killing Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter ... said in its January motion that DNA testing of the murder weapon could exclude Williams as Gayle’s ...