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Marcellus Williams, convicted in 2001 of killing former newspaper reporter Felicia Gayle, was executed Tuesday evening, a little more than an hour after the Supreme Court’s conservatives ...
Missouri Death Row Inmate Marcellus Williams, is set to be 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.
The twelve jurors deliberated for five hours. On June 15, 2001, they found Williams guilty of first-degree burglary, first-degree robbery, two counts of armed criminal action, and first-degree murder.
Protesters gathered at the corner of 39th and Troost for prayer in Kansas City on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 following the execution of Marcellus Williams. Williams was executed shortly after 6 p.m ...
A search of Williams' car turned up a St. Louis Post-Dispatch ruler and calculator that had belonged to Gayle. A laptop stolen from Gayle was also recovered from a man who testified that Williams had sold the victim’s laptop to him. [3] [6] Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001, and received a death sentence. [5]
Williams was found guilty in 2001 and sentenced to death, and the conviction was later upheld by the Missouri Supreme Court. DNA evidence emerges. In 2017, Williams was hours away from execution — he'd already eaten his last meal. His lawyers made one final appeal citing DNA testing unavailable at the time of the original trial indicating ...
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 ...
The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not connect him to the case. 'It is murder': Marcellus Williams executed ...