On Sept. 24 a man named Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection by the state of Missouri. The 55-year-old was ...

Williams was convicted of killing former newspaper reporter Felicia Gayle in 1998, but newly revealed DNA evidence suggests the murder weapon may have been mishandled, casting doubt on his ...

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

In 2001, Marcellus Williams was convicted of the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter. On Sept. 24, he died by lethal injection. Williams’ story exposes the cracks in our ...

Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained ... for the 1998 killing of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter.

The Supreme Court's denial ended Williams' decadeslong fight to prove his innocence after his conviction for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter. Williams has fought to ...

Four undergraduate organizations held a vigil to “honor the life and work” of poet and death row prisoner Marcellus Williams, ...

When Kamala Harris was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, she described the death penalty as “deeply immoral, irreversible and ineffective.” As a U.S. senator, she co-authored ...

Williams, 55, was convicted in the Aug. 11, 1998 murder of Felicia "Lisha" Gayle, a former police reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch killed during a burglary at the St. Louis suburban home ...

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