Execution

Inmate tries to prove innocence as execution looms 26 years after murder of former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter

Elaine Hadley

Testimony begins Wednesday in a hearing with life-or-death implications for Missouri inmate Marcellus Williams. The case before St. Louis County ...

Oklahoma city to pay over $7 million to cleared death row inmate who spent almost half a century in prison

Elaine Hadley

Edmond, Okla. — An Oklahoma city has agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate ...

Condemned Missouri inmate could face “surgery without anesthesia’ if good vein is elusive, lawyers say

Elaine Hadley

Missouri’s execution protocol allows for “surgery without anesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the ...