conditional upon Williams immediately entering an Alford plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree for the ...

Williams was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Gayle was ...

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

For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...

Williams, who had two previous executions stayed, maintained he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis ... crime scene and that the murder weapon had been ...

Williams, 55, was convicted of the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in suburban St. Louis. Missouri Gov ... bloody fingerprints and shoeprints, and DNA on the murder weapon — matched Williams, and ...

Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor ... Williams was convicted in 2001 of killing Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter found stabbed to death in her home ...

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.

Last month, the state of Missouri executed 55-year-old Marcellus Williams, who spent two decades in prison, despite prosecutors’ efforts to overturn his conviction for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle ...

24 (UPI) --Marcellus Williams was executed by Missouri on Tuesday evening for the 1998 murder of journalist despite objections from his attorneys ... was convicted in 2001 for the stabbing death of ...