The victim's relatives had backed an agreement between the prosecuting attorney’s office and Williams’s attorneys to commute ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was repeatedly stabbed during the burglary of her suburban St. Louis home.

Gayle, 42, was a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter. Prosecutors at Williams’ trial said he broke into ...

The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was repeatedly stabbed during the burglary of ...

Officers with the Missouri Department Corrections patrol the area as protesters opposed to the execution of Marcellus ...

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.

A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman’s home and killing her, despite calls by her family to let him ...

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

Despite objections from the St. Louis County prosecutor’s office, jurors involved in his trial, and the victim’s family, ...