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Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite questionable evidence after Supreme Court rejects final request for stay

The state of Missouri executed on Tuesday Marcellus Williams Shortly afterward, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to stay his execution. The state Department of Justice said he was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. CT. Williams, the protested his innocence was executed by lethal injection in 1998 for the stabbing death of Felicia Gayle […]

By Andrew Jack

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

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Supreme Court sharply criticized after execution of Marcellus Williams

Conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are under criticism for refusing to stop the execution of death row inmate Marcellus Williams of Missouri, who died by lethal injection on Tuesday evening. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murder of Felicia Gayle, who was found stabbed to death in her St. Louis […]

By Andrew Jack

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

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Marcellus Williams executed for murder of former reporter in Missouri

The execution took place despite a prosecutor's statement that Williams' life should be spared because his DNA did not link him to the case. Williams has always maintained his innocence. Missouri executes Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of murder in 1998 Missouri's Republican governor, Mike Parson, and the Missouri Supreme Court rejected a request for […]

By Andrew Jack

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

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How a Missouri inmate escapes death row

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The state of Missouri will execute Marcellus Williams on Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, despite efforts to rehabilitate the 55-year-old. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt to intervene in the case on Tuesday. Going to the Supreme Court was Williams' last chance to delay or prevent his […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

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That is why the Attorney General of Missouri continues to block innocent people from freedom

DNA evidence has suggested for years that Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams was wrongfully convicted of Felicia Gayle's murder, and yet the final weeks before his September 24 execution date have seen a series of unexpected twists. That evidence was enough for Gayle's family and the former Missouri Attorney General in 2017. In January of that year, […]

By Andrew Jack

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024

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Family of murdered Missouri woman ‘desperate’ over impending execution

Leisha Gayle's family says the case is “deeply and painfully personal” and “a grieving family is still waiting” for justice. The man convicted of Gayle's murder is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. On weekdays, former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle usually went for a morning run after her husband left for work. When […]

By Andrew Jack

September 23, 2024September 23, 2024