The Latest Breaking News from Missouri

The aid, which was intended to help feed vulnerable families over summer break, was not distributed for the first time until Sept. 19.

Missouri executed Williams despite questions about his conviction and protests from prosecutors and victim's family

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

Lebanese minister says only Washington can help end the fighting. Plus, Missouri executes Marcellus ‘Khaliifah’ Williams

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…

Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection in Missouri, despite new DNA evidence and pleas from the victim's family for clemency, raising serious concerns about potential wrongful convictions in capital punishment cases.