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' son, Marcellus Williams Jr., told KSDK-TV: "This is a murder." Williams, 55, was convicted in the Aug. 11, 1998 murder of Felicia "Lisha" Gayle, a former police reporter for the St ...

Williams was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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.

Murder victim and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle in 1971. Marcellus Williams was convicted of her killing and executed on Sept. 24, 2024 in Missouri.