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4 days ago · Updated 6:01 PM PDT, September 24, 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. Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted in the ...
Sep 4, 2024 · Introduction. After the death of her only son, Mamie Till-Mobley famously declared that his funeral in Chicago would be open-casket, to demonstrate to the public how mutilated he was at the hands of his killers.
5 days ago · 09.24.24 By Innocence Staff. (Image: Courtesy of Marcellus Williams’ legal team) Tonight, Missouri executed an innocent man. Our hearts are with the family and friends of Marcellus Williams and Felicia Gayle, who have suffered unimaginable loss and trauma. Mr. Williams’ story echoes that of too many others caught in our country’s broken ...
3 days ago · Williams, who had maintained his innocence in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in a St. Louis suburb, was put to death by lethal injection.
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2 days ago · Roberson consistently asserted his innocence. For years after he entered death row, he wrote judges handwritten letters trying to get a new attorney. In 2016, two months before his first scheduled ...
5 days ago · Despite support from PA Bell, who concedes the prior administration committed unconstitutional errors contributing to Mr. Williams’ unreliable conviction and death sentence, courts have consistently rejected his appeals, and the Missouri Supreme Court intervened at the request of Missouri Attorney General Bailey to overturn a plea agreement reached by both parties to remove Mr. Williams from death row.
3 days ago · Marcellus Williams was executed by the state of Missouri on Tuesday, Sept. 24, despite concerns citing his potential innocence. Williams died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. at a Missouri ...
