For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...

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

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 ...

24 in Missouri despite protests from the case’s prosecutors and the victim’s family, according to the Associated Press. Williams spent 20 years on death row after being found guilty in 2003 of killing ...

The victim, Felicia Gayle was found stabbed to death in her home in August of 1998. Her murderer left behind fingerprints, footprints, hair and a trace of DNA on the murder weapon; however ...

On Sept. 24 a man named Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection by the state of Missouri. The 55-year-old was accused and convicted of the murder of 42-year-old reporter Felicia Gayle in ...

The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to delay the execution. Williams was originally charged with the 1998 murder of Felicia ...

Marcellus Williams was executed in the state of Missouri after spending more than two ... Williams was first arrested in 1998 and charged for the first-degree murder of 42-year-old Felicia “Lisha” ...

in 1977 who was convicted of the murder and mutilation ... a Black man from Missouri, was executed in the killing of a newspaper reporter named Felicia Gayle in 2001, despite the fact that his ...

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 ...