The unusually high number of executions defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty ...

Death row inmates in five separate states are set to be put to death in the span of one week. If carried out as planned, the ...

The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors ...

The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments as attorneys working on behalf of Marcellus Williams seek to save him, just a ...

The execution of Marcellus Williams will proceed Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in a decision rejecting efforts to ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, is set to die Sept. 24 after being convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle in her ...

A Missouri death row inmate sentenced to death for a 1998 murder will have his case reviewed by the state Supreme Court ahead ...

Williams’ attorney told the Missouri Supreme Court on Monday. Williams is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday for the 1998 ...

(CNN) — The Missouri Supreme Court has declined to halt tomorrow’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be ...

Oral arguments were scheduled for Monday morning in the hearing before the state Supreme Court. Williams, 55, is set to die by injection Tuesday evening for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in ...

ST. LOUIS — A county prosecutor in St. Louis, Missouri, presented DNA evidence Wednesday alleging that a death row inmate convicted of first-degree murder is innocent in a case that has drawn ...