Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite calls from the victim’s family to spare his life
Pojmann said members of Lisha Gayle’s family did not attend the execution and chose not to release a statement through the ...
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Judge grants unusual effort by state lawmakers to delay the execution of a Texas man
Williams was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter. Roberson’s execution is scheduled to take place on the same day Alabama is ...
A Texas Board Rejects Clemency Plea From a Man Facing Execution in Shaken Baby Syndrome Case
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied a request for clemency for a man who this week could be the first person in the U.S. executed for a murder conviction tied to the diagnosis of shaken ...
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Court appeals, clemency petition seek to halt execution of Missouri man who claims innocence
Williams is Black. Williams, 55, is set to die by injection Sept. 24 for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle inside her home in University City, Missouri. It would be the third execution in ...
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‘Grotesque’: United States accused of executing an innocent man
Williams was convicted of killing a social worker and former journalist, Lisha Gayle, in 1998. The jury, at that time, accepted that he had broken into Ms Gayle’s house, stolen her property ...
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'Barbaric, inequitable, unjust': Wisconsin was the first state to abolish the death penalty for all crimes after just one execution
Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams was convicted in the 1998 killing of a former newspaper reporter, Lisha Gayle. He always maintained his innocence. Gayle was killed in her St. Louis suburban home ...