Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton declined to throw out Williams' conviction and he is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 According to St. Louis Public Radio, Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton declined to ...

Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton on Thursday declined to throw out the conviction of Marcellus Williams, who was sentenced to death for the killing of Felicia Gayle. Without intervention from a higher state ...

A full evidentiary hearing took place a week later before St. Louis County Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton, who had to find “clear and convincing” evidence of innocence or constitutional errors to ...

Marcellus Williams’ attorneys are looking to Missouri’s governor to grant clemency from his impending execution, after an unprecedented legal battle culminated in a judge ruling Thursday to ...

The ruling, issued on Thursday by Circuit Court Judge Bruce Hilton, dismantles Williams’s latest attempt to prove his innocence and paves the way for his execution on September 24.

St. Louis County Judge Bruce Hilton, who reviewed over 12,000 pages of evidence, said that Williams’ claim of innocence “unraveled” when an Aug. 19 DNA report was issued. Williams ...

A judge on Thursday declined to vacate the conviction and sentence of Marcellus Williams, a condemned inmate in Missouri whose execution is scheduled for later this month. Williams' case has drawn ...

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton presided over an evidentiary hearing last month challenging Williams' guilt. Williams, 55, was convicted in the killing of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and ...

St. Louis County Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton presided over an evidentiary hearing last month challenging Williams' guilt. Williams, 55, was convicted in the killing of Lisha Gayle, a social worker ...

(Reuters) - The Missouri Supreme Court ordered a trial court judge on Thursday to set aside a judgment he issued this week allowing a man who had been sentenced to death after a murder conviction ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge declined Thursday to vacate the conviction and death sentence of Marcellus Williams, a Missouri man scheduled for execution later this month in the stabbing death of a ...