In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...
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On Sept. 24 a man named Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection by the state of Missouri. The 55-year-old was ...
Four undergraduate organizations held a vigil to “honor the life and work” of poet and death row prisoner Marcellus Williams, ...
in 1977 who was convicted of the murder and mutilation of a librarian ... was executed in the killing of a newspaper reporter named Felicia Gayle in 2001, despite the fact that his DNA didn ...
There is no doubt that Williams was innocent of the 1998 murder of St. Louis reporter Felicia Gayle. None of the physical evidence—bloody fingerprints, footprints and hairs—tied him to the ...
He was put to death by lethal injection for a murder he said he did not commit. In Aug. 1998, Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was the victim of a fatal stabbing during a ...
Williams was first arrested in 1998 and charged for the first-degree murder of 42-year-old Felicia “Lisha” Anne Gayle. The Midwest Innocence Project, a legal group whose attorneys represented Williams ...