Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are responsible for the murder of king Duncan. Both of them experience hallucinations, which proves that their conscience is guilty, so they both know they are guilty of the murder no matter how hard they want to suppress that.
However, if we are to pick who is more responsible, then the answer would be - Macbeth. He has free will to decide what he wants to do, and although he is influenced by his manipulative wife and the witches' prophecy, he is the one who goes into Duncan's room and kills him.
Once he does that, he decides to proceed with murdering innocent people. Unlike Lady Macbeth who becomes frail and unstable throughout the play, Macbeth transforms himself into an evil and cold-blooded murderer, willing to eliminate anyone who could stand in his way.
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