Missouri has carried out its third execution of the year. At 6:10 p.m., Marcellus Williams was pronounced dead at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic, and Correctional Center in southeast Missouri’s Bonne Terre. He died by lethal injection for the 1998 stabbing death of...
The state of Missouri is set to execute Marcellus Williams in just a few hours. Both the Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have refused to halt his scheduled execution, which is scheduled as early as 6:00 p.m. Williams has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court,...
Injustice is how Missouri NAACP President Nimrod Chapel Jr. calls the situation surrounding the Marcellus Williams case. He, along with over a half-million other people call for the exoneration of Williams, saying that the prisoner is innocent. Williams was convicted...
A petition is circulating that is designed to halt this month’s scheduled of a Missouri prisoner. There are more than 524,000 calling for the State of Missouri to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams. Supporters of the Change.org petition want Williams exonerated,...
A St. Louis County judge has denied a motion to vacate the murder conviction and death sentence of Marcellus Williams. Williams was found guilty of the 1998 murder of former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle and sentenced to death. With less than two...
