Last-ditch efforts seek to halt looming execution of Marcellus Williams ...
WEB1 day ago · After governor's resignation, fate of Missouri man on death row in limbo 03:45. Two new court filings are again aiming to halt the impending execution of Marcellus Williams, a condemned inmate in ...
Marcellus Williams, a Missouri death row inmate asks the US …
WEB1 day 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 ...
NAACP president urges Missouri governor to halt Marcellus Williams ...
WEB22 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.
Man Faces Execution on Sept. 24 Despite Evidence of Innocence
WEBAug 15, 2023 · Case update from July 2: The Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, scheduled a hearing for August 21, 2024, to assess the “clear and convincing evidence” of actual innocence that led Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell to move to vacate Marcellus Williams’ wrongful conviction and death sentence.
Marcellus Williams Is Sentenced to Be Executed Next Week
WEB1 day 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 execution …
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.”.
Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would stop …
WEBAug 22, 2024 · CNN — The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked an agreement that would have resentenced death row inmate Marcellus Williams to life without parole after new testing of DNA evidence complicated...
Marcellus Williams: Missouri death row inmate expected to be ... - CNN
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams is expected to be resentenced to life without parole under a consent judgment reached Wednesday, the St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney’s Office...
Hearing set to determine if a Missouri death row inmate is …
WEBJul 2, 2024 · A Missouri judge has set an Aug. 21 date for a hearing to determine if Marcellus Williams is innocent of the murder that landed him on death row — a hearing that comes just over a month before Williams is scheduled to die.
Missouri execution plans move forward despite prosecutor trying …
WEBJul 12, 2024 · The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday, July 12, 2024, ruled that execution plans for Marcellus Williams will move forward, even as the local prosecutor works to overturn Williams’ 1998 murder conviction.