The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered a new hearing for the Marcellus Williams case, blocking a plea deal that he accepted on Wednesday in an attempt to avoid the death penalty. After years of claiming innocence, Williams pleaded no contest to the 1998 murder of...
A little over a month before he was scheduled to be executed, Marcellus Williams dropped his innocence claim and pled no contest in an agreement. The deal calls for a new sentence of life in prison without parole. The complicated turn of events happened on the day...
