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1 day ago · September 29, 2024, 7 AM ET. On Tuesday night, Missouri executed Marcellus Williams, a man who may well have been innocent of the crime he was convicted of. No physical evidence linked Williams to ...
5 days ago · Those who advocated for him continue to insist he was innocent. The St. Louis County prosecutor, citing lingering questions, believes Williams' sentence should have been converted to life in prison.
5 days ago · "He’s an innocent person," he said. "Even the prosecuting council have told the governor they should not, this man is innocent.” The victim's family had supported a life sentence instead...
5 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 ...
6 days ago · The court scheduled the execution for Sept. 24. A rally to support Marcellus Williams, a Missouri death row inmate, in Clayton, Mo., in August. Jim Salter/Associated Press. A hearing on Mr. Bell ...
6 days ago · The Missouri Supreme Court and Gov. Mike Parson have declined to halt Tuesday’s execution of a death row inmate prosecutors say may be innocent, leaving his fate in the hands of the US Supreme ...
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5 days ago · FOLLOW. The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams despite concerns that the convicted murderer might have been innocent. Williams died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday ...
