Williams was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Gayle was ...

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

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

Even the office that secured his murder conviction 21 years ago expressed ... was found guilty of stabbing Felicia Gayle in 1998 with a kitchen knife. He was convicted on the testimony of a ...

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 ...

Williams is scheduled to be put to death Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle in St. Louis County. On Sept. 12, Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton rejected claims that DNA evidence had been ...

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.

Last month, the state of Missouri executed 55-year-old Marcellus Williams, who spent two decades in prison, despite prosecutors’ efforts to overturn his conviction for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle ...

24 (UPI) --Marcellus Williams was executed by Missouri on Tuesday evening for the 1998 murder of journalist despite objections from his attorneys ... was convicted in 2001 for the stabbing death of ...