"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 ...

The case raises the specter of potentially putting an innocent person to death, an inherent risk of capital punishment. At least 200 people sentenced to death since 1973 were later exonerated, ...

Marcellus Williams, the Missouri death row inmate who has maintained his innocence for nearly 24 years, is scheduled to be ...

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

Missouri is set to execute 55-year-old death row inmate Marcellus Williams on Tuesday evening — despite pleas from ...

The state of Indiana will begin executing death row inmates later this year, a move that brought renewed interest in the ...

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

Williams, 55, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6pm CT on Tuesday for the murder of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and ...

Travis Mullis, 38, is to be executed on Tuesday but has repeatedly waived his right to appeal his death sentence.

Travis Mullis admitted to the killing in a written and videotaped confession. During his trial, defense attorneys asked ...

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