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.

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

In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female U.S. Supreme Court justice. In 1984, Jordan announced it would ...

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

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

A Missouri man was executed on Tuesday, according to the man's legal team, even though the prosecutor's office that secured ...

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

A Texas man who waived his right to appeal his death sentence has been executed for killing his 3-month-old son more than 16 ...

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

Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was repeatedly stabbed during the burglary of ...

In response to the final refusal on the part of the Missouri State Supreme Court to stay the execution on Sept 23 , protests ...

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