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      • Midwest Innocence Project, a legal group whose attorneys represented Williams, worked to reach an agreement with the prosecutor's office that Williams would enter a no-contest plea to first-degree murder in exchange for life in prison. But the Missouri Supreme Court blocked the agreement and ruled the death sentence would stand.
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    Sep 25, 2024 · Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, a newspaper reporter found stabbed to death in her home in the St. Louis area. He ...

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    Sep 24, 2024 · 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.

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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...

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    Sep 25, 2024 · A jury convicted him of first-degree murder for Gayle’s death, which in Missouri can be punishable either by death or life in prison without parole. It took jurors just 90 minutes to decide that he deserved the death penalty.

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    Sep 25, 2024 · Marcellus Williams has been executed in Missouri, despite objections from prosecutors and though the family of the woman he allegedly murdered agreed to his life imprisonment.

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    Sep 25, 2024 · Prosecutors in Missouri had doubts about the murder conviction Marcellus Williams, yet the state proceeded with the execution after last-ditch efforts to stop it failed.

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    Sep 24, 2024 · The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday evening by lethal injection, over the objections of the local prosecutor whose office obtained Mr. Williams’s murder conviction in...