A death row inmate in Missouri who has long claimed his innocence and is scheduled to be executed in less than one week asked the US Supreme Court on Wednesday for a stay of execution, arguing his ...

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams is expected to be resentenced to life without parole under a consent judgment ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — With the end of his life approaching, Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was offered an opportunity to make a final statement to the world. His words were ...

A prominent Catholic anti-death penalty group is urging outgoing President Joe Biden to commute the sentences of the 40 ...

In a defensively dominated showdown, Missouri’s “Death Row Defense” provided just the right ingredients for an improbable ...

Williams, 55, is set to die by injection Tuesday evening for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in University City, Missouri, a St. Louis suburb. Williams has long maintained his innocence.

(AP) — A Missouri man is scheduled to be executed ... Gayle's family and the prosecutor's office that put Williams on death row — an unprecedented combination. “The family defines closure ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Marcellus Williams are pointing to contaminated murder weapon and no sign of the convicted man's DNA in the hopes of sparing their client from execution next month.

Newly released prison video of a Black Missouri man who prosecutors say was killed by guards show almost 10 minutes passed ...

Drew Pyne was given a nearly impossible task when he was asked to replace Brady Cook against both Auburn and Alabama. He had ...