The same prosecutor’s office who convicted Marcellus Williams of murder now says that evidence clears the 55-year-old’s name.

"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.

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 ...

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

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

"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 ...

Marcellus Williams, a Missouri death row inmate who has maintained his innocence for decades, is set to be executed after ...

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 ...

Marcellus Williams is set to die by lethal injection in the 1998 fatal stabbing of former reporter Lisha Gayle inside her St.

Missouri is set Tuesday to execute Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate whose case has spurred several efforts to save his ...