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#Missouri executes #MarcellusWilliams despite prosecutors’ objections
Marcellus Williams, who spent >2 decades on Missouri’s death row convicted of a 1998 murder that he says he did not commit, died by lethal injection Tues evening after a lengthy & complex effort to exonerate him based on #DNA testing issues.
Williams, 55, was pronounced dead at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point.
#law #SCOTUS #DeathPenalty
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/24/marcellus-williams-execution-missouri-faq/
Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite prosecutors’ objections
Felicia “Licia” Gayle was found stabbed to death in her suburban St. Louis home in 1998. Marcellus Williams says he didn’t kill her.Kim Bellware (The Washington Post)