If carried out as planned, the executions will mark the first time in more than 20 years that five executions were held in seven days.

The 55-year-old was sentenced to death in 2001 for killing Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter found dead in her gated ...

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

Prosecutors and family members of the victim had asked for a halt to Williams' execution sentence. He died by lethal injection Tuesday evening.

A Missouri man has been executed for the 1998 fatal stabbing of a woman despite calls by her family and the prosecutor's ...

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

A judge accepted a plea of no contest last month which would have spared Marcellus Williams’ life, but that deal was scuttled ...

Just a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, Missouri officials executed Marcellus Williams ...

The Supreme Court is allowing Missouri to proceed with its plan to execute death row inmate Marcellus Williams ...

Williams was executed despite pleas for clemency from prosecutors and family members of murder victim Felicia Gayle.

The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not ...

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Marcellus Williams was put to death Tuesday for a 1998 murder in University City after a years-long ...