Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and ...

The case raises the specter of potentially putting an innocent person to death, an inherent risk of capital punishment. At ...

Bonne Terre, a city in Francois County about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis. Williams was convicted of ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, was expected to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) at a prison in Bonne Terre, ...

Lawyers for a Missouri man have filed a late appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court alleging there were racial bias and ...

The state of Missouri is set to execute Marcellus Williams in just a few hours. Both the Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike ...

Sept. 23, protesters gathered in front of the United States Courthouse on the corner of John Q. Hammons Parkway and E. St.

"Two on a single day is unusual, and four on two days in the same week is also very unusual," said Robin Maher of the Death Penalty Information Center.

Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams, an imam at Missouri’s Potosi Correctional Center, is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday ...

Caroline Ellison, a key government witness in the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, will face her Tuesday sentencing ...

Missouri is scheduled Tuesday evening to execute an innocent man. Marcellus Williams absolutely did not commit a 1998 murder. He should go free.

Missouri is set to execute 55-year-old Marcellus Williams on Tuesday despite opposition from the state’s prosecuting attorney ...