Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, ... and the Missouri Supreme Court on Monday rejected requests to halt the execution.

The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Marcellus Williams shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to delay the execution. The state Department of Corrections said he was ...

Just days before that, the Missouri Supreme Court granted a stay of execution to allow for more DNA testing. The murder weapon, a knife left in Ms Gayle's body at the scene, had not been tested ...

Williams was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Gayle was stabbed over 40 times with a butcher's knife taken from her kitchen in ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked an agreement that would have resentenced death row inmate Marcellus Williams to life without ... has long maintained he did not murder Felicia Gayle, ...

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 ...

He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2003 for the killing of Felicia Gayle at her home in University City, a suburb of St. Louis, five years earlier.

The Supreme Court refused to block Missouri from executing Marcellus Williams on Tuesday amid questions about the jury selection process and key evidence used in convicting him of murder in 2001. W… ...

Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have ... scheduled execution for the 1998 murder of a St. Louis ... stabbing murder of St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle, ...

Missouri executes Marcellus Williams, 55, for 1998 murder (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File) Williams was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the ...

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 ...