Williams, 55, is scheduled to be put to death on September 24 for the murder of Felicia Gayle, a one-time reporter for the St ...

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 ...

conditional upon Williams immediately entering an Alford plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree for the ...

Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted of killing Felicia Gayle ... January motion that DNA testing of the murder weapon could exclude Williams as Gayle’s killer. But the argument fell apart ...

Williams, 55, was convicted in the Aug. 11, 1998 murder of Felicia "Lisha" Gayle, a former police reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch killed during a burglary at the St. Louis suburban home ...

In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...

Two men on death row in the United States were executed Tuesday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained ... for the 1998 killing of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter.

Williams, who had two previous executions stayed, maintained he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis ... crime scene and that the murder weapon had been ...

Candidates for Missouri attorney general are at odds over the office's handling of pleas to overturn prison convictions. The state proceeded Tuesday with the execution of Marcellus Williams, a man ...