Marcellus Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for killing Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter found stabbed to death in her home in St Louis, Missouri. The 55-year-old's lawyers, Ms ...

Gayle’s killing, he said, was “the most violent murder I’ve ever seen in 40 years.” Williams’ team maintained that no physical evidence links him to the crime and that he is innocent.

Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams will likely be spared execution in the 1998 death of Felicia Gayle.

A Missouri death row inmate set to be executed for a 1998 murder had an evidentiary hearing on Wednesday ordered by the State Supreme Court.

Missouri’s governor, Mike Parson, and its supreme court said Monday that sufficient evidence exists for the state to take Williams’ life for the 1998 stabbing murder of Felicia Gayle, a social ...

No physical evidence linked Williams to the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle in her Missouri home, and his trial was marked by a shoddy defense and a jury-selection process that empaneled 11 white ...

Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed next month for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, but he has always maintained his innocence.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of Marcellus Williams, who in 2001 was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 stabbing murder of Felicia Gayle. None of the forensic ...

The State of Missouri executed Williams even though he’d consistently professed his innocence of the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle.