NAACP, Missouri and Marcellus Williams
Lawyers arguing Marcellus Williams case at Mo. Supreme Court one day before his execution
Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening for the brutal killing of former Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia “Lisha” Gayle Picus in 1998 in her University City home.
Last-ditch efforts seek to halt looming execution of Marcellus Williams in Missouri
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney will appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court a ruling upholding Marcellus Williams' conviction and sentence.
Marcellus Williams' Missouri execution to go forward despite prosecutor's concerns
A Missouri judge denied a motion to vacate a condemned man's death sentence despite attorneys, including one prosecutor, saying evidence was mishandled in the 1998 trial that could have exonerated Marcellus “Khaliifah” William.
Marcellus Williams asks U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled Tuesday execution
Williams was still set to die by lethal injection next week for the 1998 murder of former Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia “Lisha” Gayle in 1998.
Marcellus Williams appeals to U.S. Supreme Court in series of efforts to stop MO execution
The Supreme Court petition is the latest legal action Marcellus Williams’ team is pursuing to save his life. They also have a clemency application before the governor and a separate federal motion.
Opinion
Missouri needs to halt planned execution for Marcellus Williams
No one knows how many innocent people were among the 1,595 people executed since 1973, but it is highly likely some of them were innocent.
Opinion
If courts fail to intervene, Missouri governor must halt the execution of Marcellus Williams
Missouri plans to execute Marcellus Williams on Sept. 24. If that occurs, he’d be the 100th person executed in our state since 1989, a shameful milestone, and another instance of executing a possibly innocent person.
Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams faces execution September 24 for a crime he did not commit
Williams' case demonstrates how the death penalty in America is meted out in the most arbitrary manner—to those denied adequate legal counsel, those facing racial discrimination at trial, those railroaded to death on “technicalities,
NAACP president urges Missouri governor to halt Marcellus Williams execution next week
"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.
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‘That hair looks suspicious to me;’ Lawyers for Marcellus Williams accuse investigator of racial bias
This week, lawyers for Marcellus Williams initiated a series of efforts to save his life. Williams, 55, is set to die by ...
A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.
After meddling by Missouri's attorney general, a judge rejected Marcellus Williams’s innocence claim, even though prosecutors ...
Despite Prosecutors' 'Concerns' About Conviction, Marcellus Williams Still on Death Row After Judge's Ruling
St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell vowed to "continue to work to prevent" the execution of a man he does not believe is ...
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Marcellus Williams' Missouri execution to go forward despite prosecutor's concerns
"There is overwhelming evidence that Marcellus Williams’ trial was constitutionally ... During the evidentiary hearing late last month, prosecutor Keith Larner admitted to handling the murder ...