For those not familiar with the facts of the 1998 case, Williams was convicted of stabbing 42-year-old Felicia Gayle 43 times with a butcher knife after breaking into her home and discovering her in ...
The State of Missouri executed Marcellus “Khalifah” Williams on Tuesday night despite knowing he was most likely innocent of ...
Candidates for Missouri attorney general are at odds over the office's handling of pleas to overturn prison convictions. The ...
Those eight words, released in a statement, were the last shared by Marcellus Willliams, a devout Muslim, an imam for prisoners and a poet before he was put to death at the Correctional Center in ...
Last year, Missouri was one of five states in the country that carried out executions. Four people — Amber McLaughlin, ...
No more state-sanctioned barbarity. No more killing of innocent people like Marcellus Williams. Abolish the death penalty.
Despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence, Williams was executed, showcasing the deep flaws and racial bias embedded ...
"I was under the impression that the system works," Timmy Donald said. "So, when I was arrested, I said, 'They're going to figure it out.' ... They never did." ...