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Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri despite doubts about the evidence, jurors' concerns, and the victim's family's plea for clemency.

The governing board of Missouri State University called an emergency meeting Friday afternoon as word of a federal lawsuit involving the university's new president was quickly spreading. The recently ...

On Tuesday evening, Marcellus Williams will be strapped to a gurney at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. He will be allowed to offer his last words.

In denying Williams clemency, Missouri’s Republican governor, Mike Parson, said he had “a robust criminal history,” including 15 previous felony convictions, which were “all consistent ...

The Tuesday execution of Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams, a Missouri man held on death row for 23 years for a 1998 murder he maintained he did not commit, followed months of pleas to have his life ...

On Tuesday night, the state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams. It was a legally sanctioned murder. As the Washington Post put it, he was “convicted of a 1998 murder that he said he did not ...

The State of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams and plans to execute Christopher Leroy Collings in December. The State of Missouri plans to execute another innocent man, Robert Roberson , on ...

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 ...

Missouri executed Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams on Tuesday in the 1998 killing of a former newspaper reporter despite a prosecutor in the case and the family of the victim saying his life should ...

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 ...

Marcellus Williams, a 55-year-old man from Missouri, was executed on Tuesday despite objections from the victim's family and the prosecutor, who sought to commute the death sentence to life in prison.