On Tuesday, Marcellus Williams, 55, was executed by lethal injection after being convicted of breaking into the home of ...

The unusually high number defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the United ...

BONNE TERRE, Mo. — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman’s home and killing her, despite calls by her ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually ...

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

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.

Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in the August 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle during a robbery of her ...

Citing opposition to the death penalty and doubts about Williams’ guilt, a local and national outcry did not stop the ...

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle.

Marcellus Williams had always maintained that he had nothing to do with the stabbing death of a former St. Louis ...

Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in the August 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle during a robbery of her ...