The Missouri Supreme Court and the state's GOP Gov. Mike Parson each refused requests on Monday from an inmate attempting to avoid his scheduled execution. Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to be ...

Marcellus Williams, scheduled to be executed on Tuesday for a 1998 murder conviction, still hopes for a last-minute reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court. By Shaila Dewan The governor of Missouri ...

The Missouri Supreme Court, almost simultaneously, also rejected a request to cancel the execution so that a lower court could make a new determination about whether a trial prosecutor wrongly ...

The Supreme Court is generally unified in its ruling on death penalty cases, but Marcellus Williams' case sparked differing ...

Missouri will execute an innocent man, Marcellus 'Khaliifah' Williams, said Williams' attorney, Tricia Rojo Bushnell.

The Supreme Court refused to block Missouri from executing Marcellus Williams on Tuesday amid questions about the jury selection process and key evidence used in convicting him of murder in 2001.

Lawyers for a Missouri man scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening have filed another appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court that ...

The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be innocent, leaving his fate in the hands of the US Supreme ...

The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Marcellus Williams shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to delay the execution. The state Department of Corrections said he was ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --The Missouri Supreme Court on Monday denied a request to halt Tuesday's pending execution of Marcellus Williams as prosecutors filed to vacate his conviction for the 1998 murder ...