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

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

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 ...

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

One day before he’s scheduled to be executed, a Missouri death row inmate could learn whether his fate will change after the ...

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

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 ...

Death row inmate Marcellus Williams appeared ... and other charges. The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered the hearing after blocking an agreement, previously approved by Hilton, between the ...

A county prosecutor in St. Louis, Missouri ... murderer off of death row and fulfill their political ends." Wednesday's hearing came after the Missouri State Supreme Court ruled last Thursday ...