The state of Missouri put him to death despite serious questions about the evidence against him, jurors’ misgivings, and the ...

Williams, 55, is scheduled to be put to death on September 24 for the murder of Felicia Gayle, a one-time reporter for the St ...

conditional upon Williams immediately entering an Alford plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree for the ...

Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained ... for the 1998 killing of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter.

For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...

Williams, who had two previous executions stayed, maintained he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis ... crime scene and that the murder weapon had been ...

The order came only hours before Marcellus Williams, 48, was due to be put to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a newspaper reporter. "A sentence of death is the ultimate, permanent ...

Williams was convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Felicia Gayle in 1998, but newly revealed DNA evidence suggests the murder weapon may have been mishandled, casting doubt on his ...

Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor ... Williams was convicted in 2001 of killing Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter found stabbed to death in her home ...

including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained his innocence and drawn support from civil rights groups. Marcellus Williams, 55, was sentenced to death in the midwestern state of ...