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 ...

Convicted in 2001 for the murder of Felicia Gayle, Williams and his legal representatives devoted years to appeals to prove his innocence. Sadly, their efforts were not enough to save him. On ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a social worker and well-known St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, who was killed in her home. The St ...

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 ...

Williams has always professed his innocence in the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle Picus. The prosecution’s case against him was based solely on notoriously unreliable, incentivized informant ...