Earlier efforts to halt the execution were denied Monday by the Missouri Supreme Court and Republican Gov. Mike Parson. His execution is the third in Missouri this year, and among five taking place ...

Stenton and his colleagues have advertised for years at venues, such as museum displays on the Franklin expedition, for DNA samples from people who believe they are descendants of those doomed sailors ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Missouri to proceed with its plan to execute death row inmate Marcellus Williams, ...

Williams had long proclaimed he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis, Missouri, suburb.

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

A Missouri man convicted of murder was executed Tuesday evening after the the governor and the Supreme Court rejected efforts ...

William Wade Skiffington was convicted of second-degree murder in his common-law partner's shooting death, but there was no ...

A boy kidnapped from a California park more than seven decades ago was found alive and well as a senior citizen and reunited ...

Marcellus Williams, who spent more than two decades on Missouri’s death row convicted of a 1998 murder that he says he did not commit, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening after a lengthy and ...

Prosecutors say they have DNA and video evidence that ties Jose Ibarra to the murder of Laken Riley, an Augusta nursing student who was killed on the campus of UGA.