ST. LOUIS — A Missouri prosecutor now believes that inmate Marcellus Williams is innocent of the crime that landed him on death row and very nearly cost him his life, and he is seeking to overturn ...

“The president has long talked about his serious concerns about the death penalty … whether it is consistent with the values fundamental to our sense of justice and fairness,” White House press ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — The Missouri Supreme Court has called of an execution of a man convicted of killing a former newspaper reporter, state officials said Thursday. The court withdrew the execution warrant for ...

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams has been executed despite a prosecutor in the case and the victim’s family saying his life should be spared. Williams, 55, had been convicted of the 1998 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Marcellus Williams, who has been convicted of murder, will not be executed after the Governor of MIssouri issued a stay of ...

(CNN) — Missouri's governor took the rare steps last year of staying the execution of a death row inmate and announcing the creation of a five-person panel to look at the case. But with Eric Greitens ...

Last week, on the day he was scheduled to die, Marcellus Williams didn’t. Just hours before he was to be strapped down and pumped full of poison, Williams, the convicted killer of Felicia “Lisha” ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri prosecutor now ...