Candidates for Missouri attorney general are at odds over the office's handling of pleas to overturn prison convictions. The ...

Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people — Amber McLaughlin, ...

The death penalty ... The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court denied ...

M arcellus Williams was executed by the state of Missouri on Tuesday, Sept. 24, despite concerns citing his potential ...

Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, an imam at Missouri’s Potosi Correctional Center, was executed on Tuesday, even as his ...

Last night, the state of Missouri executed 55-year-old Marcellus Williams over the objections of the local prosecutor and against the wishes of the murdered victim's spouse. Williams was convicted of ...

In the aftermath of Williams’ execution there has been an outcry from the public due to the doubts over his conviction, ...

Bearing witness to Missouri’s latest state-sponsored killing, mourners spoke out at a vigil outside the execution room.

The Catholic Church teaches that the death penalty, even for those who have committed heinous crimes, constitutes an attack ...

Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection on Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. CT. for the 1998 stabbing death of newspaper reporter ...

The Supreme Court allowed Missouri to execute Marcellus Williams on Tuesday for a 2003 murder, which he maintained he did not commit.