Marcellus Williams was backed in his appeals for clemency by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell.

The 55-year-old was sentenced to death in 2001 for killing Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter found dead in her gated ...

A Missouri man convicted of murder was executed Tuesday evening after the the governor and the Supreme Court rejected efforts ...

Despite weeks of racially-charged advocacy, convicted killer Marcellus Williams was put to death by the State Of Missouri ...

Williams was executed despite pleas for clemency from prosecutors and family members of murder victim Felicia Gayle.

Marcellus Williams was convicted in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in Missouri, but DNA testing raised questions.

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Marcellus Williams had long proclaimed he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis, Missouri, ...

Marcellus Williams was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001 for the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in St. Louis.

Marcellus Williams was convicted in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in Missouri, but DNA testing raised questions.

Missouri will execute an innocent man, Marcellus 'Khaliifah' Williams, said Williams' attorney, Tricia Rojo Bushnell.

Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in ...