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

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

Marcellus Williams, a Missouri inmate on death row since 2001, was executed as scheduled after his last clemency request was ...

DNA evidence found on the murder weapon does not match that of Marcellus Williams, who is slated to be put to death Tuesday.

Missouri executed a man Tuesday night for the 1998 death of a woman when he broke into her home and stabbed her to death, authorities said.

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

Marcellus Williams was put to death despite calls by the woman’s family and prosecutors to let him serve out the rest of his ...

Williams had long proclaimed he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis, Missouri, suburb.

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

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

Despite protestations from the prosecutor’s office and anti-death penalty advocates, as well as calls for clemency from the ...