Marcellus Williams Is Sentenced to Be Executed Next Week
WEB22 hours ago · By Brenna Ehrlich. September 19, 2024. Marcellus Williams is set to be executed on Sept. 24. Courtesy of the Innocence Project. In Marcellus Williams ’ clemency package, his mother describes him ...
NAACP president urges Missouri governor to halt Marcellus Williams ...
WEB8 hours ago · "Taking the life of Marcellus Williams would be an unequivocal statement that when a white woman is killed, a Black man must die. And any Black man will do," wrote NAACP president Derrick Johnson.
Marcellus Williams, a Missouri death row inmate asks the US …
WEB23 hours ago · Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2001 in the death of Felicia Gayle, a one-time newspaper reporter found stabbed to death in her home in 1998. His execution is set ...
Last-ditch efforts seek to halt looming execution of Marcellus Williams ...
WEB1 day ago · Williams, 55, is set to die by lethal injection next Tuesday. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2003 for the killing of Felicia Gayle at her home in University City ...
Court appeals, clemency petition seek to halt ... - Associated Press News
WEB2 days ago · ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court a judge’s ruling upholding the conviction and death sentence for Marcellus Williams, whose execution is one week away.. A notice of appeal filed Monday night did not include any details about the basis for the appeal.
NAACP president urges Missouri governor to halt ... - Associated Press News
WEB1 day ago · More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. The president of the NAACP is urging Missouri's governor to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams scheduled for Tuesday, writing that executing a Black man who says he was wrongfully convicted would amount to a “horrible miscarriage of justice.”.
A judge weighs whether to spare Missouri man from execution …
WEBAug 29, 2024 · LOUIS — Marcellus Williams thought the DNA evidence was enough to remove him from Missouri’s death row, perhaps even free him from prison. A decades-old mistake by a prosecutor’s office has kept...
Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have ... - CBS News
WEBAug 22, 2024 · The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked an agreement that would have spared the life of death row inmate Marcellus Williams and instead ordered a hearing to proceed on Williams' innocence...
Marcellus Williams: Hearing held for Missouri death row inmate …
WEBAug 28, 2024 · A Missouri judge is holding held an evidentiary hearing Wednesday over the innocence claim of death row inmate Marcellus Williams, whose quest to prove he did not murder a woman in 1998 has...
At Missouri Hearing, Lawyers Spar Over Fate of Prisoner on Death …
WEBAug 29, 2024 · The case of Marcellus Williams, 55, who has maintained his innocence in a 1998 killing, has pitted a local prosecutor against the state’s attorney general.