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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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Missouri executes death row inmate Marcellus Williams for murdering a woman in 1998

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman's home and killing her, despite demands from her family and the prosecutor who put him on death row to let him spend the rest of his life in prison. Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted of the 1998 murder of […]

By Andrew Jack

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

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Marcellus Williams executed despite protests and requests for clemency

MID-MISSOURI – Marcellus Williams was executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Bonne Terre. Although Governor Mike Parson rejected Williams's pardon for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle in St. Louis County, protesters gathered across central Missouri before his execution, calling for Parson to spare his life. Jim Kemnna, a volunteer at the Jefferson City Correctional […]

By Andrew Jack

September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

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Who was Freddie Owens? South Carolina inmate executed by first lethal injection in 13 years

South Carolina executed person sentenced to death Freddie Owens from Lethal injection on Friday, the first Execution in 13 years. Owens, 46, was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of Irene Gravesa supermarket clerk during a robbery in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1997.The execution began at 6:35 p.m. ET, and at 6:53 p.m. […]

By Andrew Jack

September 21, 2024September 21, 2024