If this week’s remaining executions are completed, the United States will have reached 1,600 executions since the death ...

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

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

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

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

A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections ...

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

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of Marcellus Williams, who in 2001 was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 stabbing murder of Felicia Gayle. None of the forensic ...

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.

Earlier efforts to halt the execution were denied Monday by the Missouri Supreme Court and Republican Gov. Mike Parson. His execution is the third in Missouri this year, and among five taking place ...

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