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Sep 25, 2024 · Sept. 24, 2024, 9:00 AM UTC / Updated Sept. 25, 2024, 12:33 AM UTC. By Daniella Silva and Phil Helsel. A Missouri man convicted of murder was executed Tuesday evening after the the governor and ...
Aug 29, 2024 · The fate of Marcellus Williams — who is set to be executed in less than a month — now rests with a St. Louis County circuit judge. Judge Bruce Hilton took six hours of testimony on Wednesday in a hearing on a motion to throw out Williams’ conviction. He is under a court order to rule on the motion by Sept. 13. “This is a difficult ...
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Nov 25, 2019 · The murder of Felicia Gayle, a former reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, went unsolved for more than a year before the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney announced that a laptop computer and other items taken in a burglary of the home led them to a burglar and armed robber named Marcellus S. Williams. The Post-Dispatch reported that two informants had given authorities information as ...
Aug 21, 2024 · A death row inmate in Missouri is currently fighting for his life as experts say new DNA evidence proves his innocence of a 1998 murder – just weeks before he faces execution. Marcellus Williams, 55, was sentenced to death in 2001 for fatally stabbing well-known St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle.
Aug 21, 2024 · A St. Louis County circuit judge accepted an agreement Wednesday that will spare Marcellus Williams from the death penalty but keep him in prison for life. “Marcellus Williams is an innocent man, and nothing about today’s plea agreement changes that fact,” said Tricia Rojo Bushnell, executive director of the Midwest Innocence Project and an attorney for Williams.
Sep 23, 2024 · Mo. Gov., state supreme court reject late appeals by Marcellus Williams as execution looms Tuesday. By Associated Press and Gregg Palermo St. Louis. UPDATED 5:30 PM CT Sep. 23, 2024. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.— Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced late Monday afternoon that he would not grant clemency to spare the life of Marcellus Williams, who is ...
Jun 5, 2024 · Gayle was a social worker who previously worked as a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ... Williams’ attorneys responded that the girlfriend and Cole were both convicted felons out for a ...
