A death row inmate who was executed in South Carolina is set to be quickly followed by four others across the U.S., marking a ...

Death row inmates in five states are scheduled to be put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of ...

A Texas man with a history of mental illness who has repeatedly sought to waive his right to appeal his death sentence faced ...

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

Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was repeatedly stabbed during the burglary of her suburban St. Louis home.

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

The victim's relatives had backed an agreement between the prosecuting attorney’s office and Williams’s attorneys to commute ...

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

A Missouri man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state ...

Despite objections from the St. Louis County prosecutor’s office, jurors involved in his trial, and the victim’s family, ...

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

Gayle, 42, was a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter. Prosecutors at Williams’ trial said he broke into ...