A Saginaw man rose to leave court after a judge dismissed a felony case against him. Any relief he may have felt at his newfound freedom was short-lived as, moments later, deputies placed him in ...

He said the informants were the “two strongest witnesses” he had produced in a murder case during his nearly 32-year career as a St. Louis County prosecutor.

Marcellus Williams, 55, has long maintained innocence in the 1998 death of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former newspaper reporter who was repeatedly stabbed during a burglary of her suburban ...

First, though, if you could, give us some background about this case. RACHEL LIPPMANN, BYLINE: Marcellus Williams was convicted of the 1998 murder of a former newspaper reporter.

Lawyers for a Missouri death row inmate, Marcellus Williams, have filed another appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to stay his execution scheduled for Tuesday evening. Oral arguments ...

County prosecutors and defense lawyers both claim that mishandled evidence and racial bias tainted the murder case. Marcellus Williams is slated for execution Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. CT.

Marcellus Williams, 55, ... a Republican who has never granted clemency in a death penalty case, on Monday rejected Williams' request to spare his life and instead sentence him to life in prison.

The prosecutor in the 2001 first-degree murder case, Keith Larner, testified at the August hearing that the trial jury was fair, even though it included just one Black member on the panel.

Whatever Marcellus Williams’s motivation, the judge in his case, Bruce F. Hilton, after reviewing “some 8,000 pages of records in the case” and speaking with the victim’s husband ...

A Day Before Scheduled Execution, U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Consider Marcellus Williams' Death Row Case Cause of Death Revealed for Woman with Dementia Who Was Attacked by Dozens of Dogs In Her Home ...

The original hearing was scuttled when the prosecutor’s office admitted evidence had been contaminated. Despite that, Marcellus Williams’ DNA has never been linked to the 1998 murder.