Marcellus Williams was sentenced to death in Missouri for the 1998 killing of Felicia Gay

WASHINGTON: Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained his innocenc...

The U.S. Supreme Court, the last body that could have halted the execution, declined to intervene in the case

A Missouri man has been executed, despite the prosecutor's office that secured his murder conviction 21 years ago expressing doubts about the integrity of the case.

Both men were executed by lethal injection, raising the total number of US executions this year to 16.

Williams was put to death despite questions his attorneys raised over jury selection at his trial and the handling of evidence in the case.

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

Attorneys for Marcellus Williams filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop his planned execution.

Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of a 1998 murder in suburban St. Louis, maintained he was innocent. But the courts and the governor were not persuaded.