The state of Missouri put him to death despite serious questions about the evidence against him, jurors’ misgivings, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Previous reporting by the Associated Press: A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction ... Missouri put to death Marcellus Williams amid lingering ...

(AP) A Texas man who could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied ... a month after Missouri put to death Marcellus Williams amid lingering questions about his ...

Roberson was scheduled Thursday evening to become the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction ... after Missouri put to death Marcellus Williams amid lingering questions about ...

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 ...