The Latest Breaking News from Marcellus Williams

Robert Roberson, 57, who has long claimed innocence over death of daughter, has for now been spared

A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome is facing a lethal injection

Marcellus Williams' execution raises doubts about his guilt, fueling the debate on the death penalty in the U.S.

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

’How can you execute a man when there is reasonable doubt?’ Obie Alexander, who spent nearly two decades in prison on a wrongful murder conviction, toldThe Independent

The NAACP said Tuesday night's execution was "murder," not justice

Marcellus Williams was convicted of murdering a former journalist, but concerns had been raised that key evidence had been contaminated

The US state of Missouri on Tuesday executed death row inmate Marcellus Williams for the 1998 murder of a woman, even though the prosecutor's office that secured his murder conviction 21 years ago expressed doubts about the integrity of the case. The victim's family had pleaded with authorities to spare…

One inmate in South Carolina has already been executed and four others in as many states are set to quickly follow.