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 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...
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...
