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Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri on Tuesday, having been convicted for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former police reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch killed during a burglary ...
Missouri Death Row Inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection on Sept. 24, 2024 in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was 55.
Williams was the third Missouri inmate put to death this year and the 100th since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 1989. Show comments Advertisement
The death sentence was controversial, as DNA evidence had been claimed to prove his innocence, and Gayle's family repeatedly stated they did not want Williams executed. [7] The court rejected these arguments, finding no abuse of discretion by the trial court and that the additional DNA on the murder weapon was the prosecutor's which adhered ...
Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.
Deacon Dave Billips, with the Office of Peace and Justice with the St. Louis Archdiocese, holds a sign as he protests the execution of Marcellus Williams on Sept. 24, 2024, outside the Carnahan ...
As Williams execution approaches, USA TODAY talked to his attorneys and is looking back at the crime and who the man is. Missouri Death Row Inmate Marcellus Brown, is set to be executed by lethal ...
Marcellus Williams, 55, was put to death by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) at a prison in Bonne Terre, according to The Innocence Project, w Missouri man executed despite ...