Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former newspaper reporter who was found brutally stabbed in her suburban St.

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on Tuesday halted the scheduled execution of condemned inmate Marcellus Williams after DNA testing raised questions about whether he actually killed. Just hours before ...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court blocked an agreement that would spare the life of death row inmate Marcellus Williams and instead ordered a hearing to proceed on his innocence claim, ...

UPDATE: Missouri governor Eric Greitens has stayed the execution. See below for more details. The state of Missouri is preparing to kill Marcellus Williams via lethal injection tonight, despite new ...