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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.

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.

The execution of Marcellus Williams, who was put to death by the state of Missouri last week over the protests of a prosecutor and the family of the woman he was convicted of murdering ...

Yet, the governor's predecessor, former Republican Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, had twice paused Williams' execution in 2015 and 2017 — the latter time just hours before he was set to be put to ...

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, making him the 21st person executed in the US since the reinstitution of the death penalty despite credible evidence of their innocence.

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 Death Row Inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection on Sept. 24, 2024 in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

The inmate's final words were, “All praise to Allah in every situation.” Missouri executes Marcellus Williams, 55, for 1998 murder (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File) ...

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.

1:38 Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite objections from victim’s family, prosecutor Marcellus Williams, a 55-year-old Missouri man convicted of killing a former reporter in 1998, was ...