Marcellus Williams

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In 2001, Marcellus Williams was convicted of the 1998 killing of social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, and sentenced ...

Missouri is set to execute a death row inmate Tuesday night after efforts to save his life failed, including by a prosecutor who cited DNA tests on the ...

Missouri executed four people in 2023. Amber McLaughlin, Michael Tisius, Johnny Johnson and Leonard Taylor, who maintained that he was innocent, all died by ...

Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor in light of what he described as new evidence, will be executed Tuesday evening ...

The 3 appeals were his last chance at avoiding lethal injection under the death penalty in Missouri, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday.

A Missouri man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Tuesday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state to proceed with its plan to ...

Marcellus Williams was convicted in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in Missouri, but DNA testing raised questions.

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle.

A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman's home and killing her, despite calls by her family to let him serve out the rest of his life ...

Law students in D.C. area advocate for clemency for Marcellus Williams, a death row inmate, highlighting broader issues of criminal justice and the death ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of Marcellus Williams, who in 2001 was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 stabbing ...

Just a few hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, Missouri officials executed Marcellus Williams Tuesday at the Eastern Reception, ...

Marcellus Williams, ...

Photo of Marcellus Williams, courtesy of his legal team. At 7:18pm ET, CNN reported that the state of Missouri executed Marcellus ...

Williams long maintained his innocence and the killing was opposed by victim's family, jurors and office that tried him.

Missouri has executed a convicted murderer who maintained his innocence for more than two decades, despite last-minute appeals from both defence and ...

Missouri executed Marcellus Williams yesterday, a man prosecutors believed was innocent. And, why FAFSA's launch was so disastrous.

This comes as inmates on death row in five US states are set to be executed within a week. Here is what we know about Williams, the case and the death penalty ...

Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri on Tuesday. Around the nation and world, his death was met with condemnation.

The 55 year old was a devout Muslim and a religious leader at Potosi Correctional Center, the state prison south of St. Louis which houses death row prisoners.

Prosecutors in Missouri had doubts about the murder conviction Marcellus Williams, yet the state proceeded with the execution after last-ditch efforts to ...