Post continues.True Crime ConversationsMarcellus Williams had been in and out of prison and already had more than a dozen ...

The state of Missouri put him to death despite serious questions about the evidence against him, jurors’ misgivings, and the victim’s family asking that he be spared. Did he die an innocent man?

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

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 ...

The order came only hours before Marcellus Williams, 48, was due to be put to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a newspaper reporter. "A sentence of death is the ultimate, permanent ...

including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained his innocence and drawn support from civil rights groups. Marcellus Williams, 55, was sentenced to death in the midwestern state of ...

Marcellus Williams, convicted in 2001 of killing former newspaper reporter Felicia Gayle, was executed Tuesday ... was convicted of that murder but, in exchange for avoiding a death sentence ...