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Sep 24, 2024 · Marcellus Williams was executed on Tuesday night in the US state of Missouri after spending more than two decades on death row. Williams, who had two previous executions stayed, maintained he...
Sep 25, 2024 · BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections of the victim’s family and the prosecutor, who wanted the death sentence commuted to life in prison.
Sep 24, 2024 · Marcellus Williams to be executed in Missouri woman's brutal murder; clemency denied. Marcellus Williams is set to die by lethal injection in the 1998 fatal stabbing of former reporter Lisha...
Sep 23, 2024 · A Missouri death row inmate set to be executed Tuesday in the 1998 fatal stabbing of a former reporter maintains his innocence and that he's never been forensically linked to the killing.
- Natalie Neysa Alund
- Senior Reporter
Sep 23, 2024 · Without DNA evidence pointing to any alternative suspect, Midwest Innocence Project attorneys reached a compromise with the prosecutor’s office: Williams would enter a new, no-contest plea to first-degree murder in exchange for a new sentence of life in prison without parole.
Nov 17, 2017 · Last updated on October 2, 2024. This page will be updated at 12 noon (Eastern Time) each day. to reflect executions that occurred in the previous 24 hours. Please scroll over each state on the above map to see the number of active and inactive death warrants, as well as the number of executions.
Aug 21, 2024 · Prosecutors to Face Off Over Innocence Claim by Prisoner on Death Row - The New York Times. Mishandled Evidence Scuttles Prisoner’s Bid to Prove Innocence. Prosecutors in Missouri who...
