With the end of his life approaching, Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was offered an opportunity to make a final statement to the world. His words were few — neither proclaiming innocence nor admitting guilt in the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle,

Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle was 42 when she was killed. Now with her killer set for execution, her family hopes for finality.

A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections of the victim’s family and the prosecutor, who wanted the death sentence commuted to life in prison.

A Missouri man was executed on Tuesday, according to the state's Department of Corrections, even though the prosecutor's office that secured his murder conviction 21 years ago expressed doubts about the integrity of the case and the victim's family said he should be spared.

Marcellus Williams' attorneys have said that his DNA wasn't found on the murder weapon and that his jury trial was unfair.

Missouri executed a man Tuesday night for the 1998 death of a woman when he broke into her home and stabbed her to death, authorities said.