Inside the Tragic Life and Controversial Execution of Marcellus Williams
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?
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The Death Penalty Perpetuates America’s Legacy of Anti-Black Violence
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 ...
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Corrupt Government, Morals, and Death: Marcellus Williams
Marcellus Williams was convicted for the death of Felicia Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis dispatch. The investigation had gone cold until an inmate by the name of Henry Cole claimed that ...
The Chronicle23d
The conscienceless Micheal Parsons and fake Christian values
The victim, Felicia Gayle was found stabbed ... hair and a trace of DNA on the murder weapon; however, none of this forensic evidence matched the DNA of Marcellus Williams. According to the ...
Daily Sundial23d
BSU holds candlelight vigil for Marcellus Williams
Despite the sun starting to set earlier in the evening and the weather growing colder, CSUN’s Black Student Union (BSU) set up a Candlelight Ceremony for Marcellus ... Williams, a 55-year-old Black ...
Next City23d
How Cities Can Bring Some Humanity to the Criminal Legal System
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 ...
The New York Times23d
Teenager Charged With Murder of 5 Relatives in Washington State
By John Yoon Prosecutors in Washington State charged a 15-year-old boy on Thursday with the murder of his parents and three siblings this week near Seattle. The teenager has been in custody since ...
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Man Faces Execution
On Sept. 24 a man named Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection by the state of Missouri. The 55-year-old was accused and convicted of the murder of 42-year-old reporter Felicia Gayle in ...
The Dartmouth27d
Student organizations hold vigil for Marcellus Williams
On Oct. 15, the Afro-American society, Al-Nur Muslim Student Association, Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective and Spare Rib Magazine held a vigil for Marcellus Williams ... guilty in 2003 of ...
The Washington Post1mon
In ‘Framed,’ John Grisham teams with an activist to spotlight real-life injustice
in 1977 who was convicted of the murder and ... last month, Marcellus Williams, a Black man from Missouri, was executed in the killing of a newspaper reporter named Felicia Gayle in 2001, despite ...
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Texas judge grants TRO to keep Texas death row inmate Robert Roberson from being executed tonight
A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to ... than a month after Missouri put to death Marcellus Williams amid lingering questions about ...