Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri after prosecutor tried to stop it
A Missouri man convicted of murder was executed Tuesday evening after the the governor and the Supreme Court rejected efforts by his attorneys and the prosecutor's office to halt the execution.
A Missouri man convicted of murder was executed Tuesday evening after the the governor and the Supreme Court rejected efforts by his attorneys and the prosecutor's office to halt the execution.
Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, a newspaper reporter found stabbed to death in her home in the St. Louis area. He maintained his innocence.
Williams was executed by lethal injection at a prison in Bonne Terre and pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. local time (7:10 p.m. ET), the state Department of Corrections said.
"Tonight, Missouri executed an innocent man," The Innocence Project, which along with others tried to halt the execution, said in a statement.
The U.S. Supreme Court earlier Tuesday denied a stay of execution. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, and the Missouri Supreme Court on Monday rejected requests to halt the execution.
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