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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 ...
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.
Marcellus Williams was born on December 30, 1968, in South Bend, Indiana. At the age of five, he and his mother, along with his two brothers, moved to St. Louis, Missouri . [ 14 ] Growing up in a troubled and impoverished household, Williams faced early exposure to alcohol , drugs , and guns , and was subjected to violent sexual and physical ...
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 ...
A judge accepted a plea of no contest last month which would have spared Marcellus Williams’ life, but that deal was scuttled by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office.
Someone from the Department of Corrections intoned, “The execution of Marcellus Williams has concluded. Time of death was 6:10 p.m.” And the dark-blue curtains closed.
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
Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams has been executed despite a prosecutor in the case and the victim’s family saying his life should be spared.. Williams, 55, had been convicted of the ...