Suspect in 1989 Framingham rapes still in California three months after LA arrest
Cold case rape suspect Stephen Gale, wanted for a 1989 attack on two women in Framingham, was arrested in Los Angeles in August, but after another California court appearance Friday, there's still no ...
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The Death Penalty Perpetuates America’s Legacy of Anti-Black Violence
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 ...
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Opinion | The death penalty needs to be abolished, not revived
In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...
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How Cities Can Bring Some Humanity to the Criminal Legal System
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 ...
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Man Faces Execution
The 55-year-old was accused and convicted of the murder of 42-year-old reporter Felicia Gayle in 2001. Felicia Gayle was murdered in 1981 and her murder was linked to Marcellus Williams through the ...
The Dartmouth20d
Student organizations hold vigil for Marcellus Williams
Williams spent 20 years on death row after being found guilty in 2003 of killing Felicia Gayle ... connecting Williams to the murder weapon after new testing was conducted in 2016. The original ...
The Washington Post23d
In ‘Framed,’ John Grisham teams with an activist to spotlight real-life injustice
in 1977 who was convicted of the murder and mutilation of a librarian ... was executed in the killing of a newspaper reporter named Felicia Gayle in 2001, despite the fact that his DNA didn ...
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Santa Monica College employee dies after being shot by coworker on campus
She was identified as Felicia Hudson, 54 ... Police said Dean “had a history of arrests including for attempted murder in 2011 and an assault with a deadly weapon, a firearm, in 2019.
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Roberson’s execution is delayed, but the grim process of US state executions continues
There is no doubt that Williams was innocent of the 1998 murder of St. Louis reporter Felicia Gayle. None of the physical evidence—bloody fingerprints, footprints and hairs—tied him to the ...
The Hofstra Chronicle26d
Why do we morally justify state murder?
He was put to death by lethal injection for a murder he said he did not commit. In Aug. 1998, Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was the victim of a fatal stabbing during a ...
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Missouri executes Marcellus Williams after two decades on death row
Williams was first arrested in 1998 and charged for the first-degree murder of 42-year-old Felicia “Lisha” Anne Gayle. The Midwest Innocence Project, a legal group whose attorneys represented Williams ...