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 ...

conditional upon Williams immediately entering an Alford plea of guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree for the ...

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 ...

Williams, who had two previous executions stayed, maintained he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis ... crime scene and that the murder weapon had been ...

including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained his innocence and drawn support from civil rights groups. Marcellus Williams, 55, was sentenced to death in the midwestern state of ...