Those eight words, released in a statement, were the last shared by Marcellus Willliams, a devout Muslim, an imam for prisoners and a poet before he was put to death at the Correctional Center in ...

Outrage is sweeping across the US after the execution of Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate whose murder conviction had ...

Marcellus Williams, convicted of killing Lisha Gayle in 1998, faced execution despite the victim’s family and prosecutor ...

Three Black men have dominated the news in recent days for different reasons: Eric Adams, Marcellus Williams, and Mark Robinson ... And even then, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to ...

He was Marcellus Williams' lead trial lawyer ... The current governor of Missouri, Mike Parson, supported the state's action, was encouraging that this execution go forward. He put out a statement ...

Questions are still swirling around the execution of a Missouri man convicted of fatally stabbing a woman in 1998.

Some progressives re-upped calls to abolish the death penalty, while conservatives lauded the execution for providing closure ...

Marcellus Williams, a man convicted of repeatedly stabbing former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, Lisha Gayle in 1998, was ...

Bearing witness to Missouri’s latest state-sponsored killing, mourners spoke out at a vigil outside the execution room.

The Supreme Court allowed Missouri to execute Marcellus Williams on Tuesday for a 2003 murder, which he maintained he did not commit.

Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in the August 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle during a robbery of her ...

Citing opposition to the death penalty and doubts about Williams’ guilt, a local and national outcry did not stop the ...