What happened to him over the quarter of a century since he was charged with the murder of Felicia Gayle—who was found stabbed to death in her suburban St. Louis home on August 11, 1998 ...

Williams was convicted of the 1998 killing of Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, a 42-year-old journalist and social worker. She died a gruesome death by repeated stabbing with her own kitchen knife.

The State of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams, making him the 21st person executed in the US since the reinstitution of the death penalty despite credible evidence of their innocence.

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.

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 ...

Williams was convicted in 2001 of Gayle’s murder. Physical evidence at the crime scene, including fingerprints, bloodied shoe prints and hairs, reportedly could not be tied to Williams.

Williams, whose son watched him die from another room, was found guilty in 2003 of killing Felicia "Lisha" Gayle, who was stabbed to death during a burglary at her home in St Louis five years earlier.

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 ...

Williams, who was convicted of the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, was put to death by lethal injection at 6:10 pm CT on Tuesday, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections.