In January 2024, Bell went to bat for Marcellus Williams and took the unusual step of petitioning the Circuit Court of St. Louis County to reverse a conviction his own office had secured.

“If there is even the shadow of a doubt of innocence, the death penalty should never be an option,” said St. Louis County‘s chief prosecutor, Wesley Bell, who argued that Williams, 55 ...

Last winter, Bell filed a motion to vacate Williams' murder conviction, empowered by a Missouri law that took effect in 2021 allowing prosecuting attorneys to do so if they believed a convicted ...

At the end day, the Missouri Supreme Court seemed more interested in reminding Wesley Bell, the St. Louis County prosecutor since 2019, that it — not he — had the final word as to the legality ...

The State of Missouri executed Williams even though St. Louis District Attorney Wesley Bell said that the DNA results and lack of other evidence in the case “cast inexorable doubt on Mr ...

But, last year, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell – citing disturbing inconsistencies in Williams’ case – filed a court motion to vacate the prosecution.

Marcellus Williams was executed by the state of Missouri on Tuesday, Sept. 24, despite concerns citing his potential innocence. Williams died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. at a Missouri ...

Williams, 55, died after 6 pm by lethal injection. He was backed in his appeals for clemency by St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell.

In January this year, St. Louis County prosecuting attorney Wesley Bell presented new DNA analysis that suggested Williams’ DNA was not on the knife used to murder Gayle.

No DNA ever connected Williams to the murder weapon. In recent months, St. Louis County prosecutor Attorney Wesley Bell filed a motion to vacate the death sentence, presenting a new DNA lab report ...

In mid-August, a St. Louis County Circuit Court judge approved a deal between Williams and the county’s prosecuting attorney, Wesley Bell, that would have resentenced Williams to life in prison.

The state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Marcellus Williams shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to delay the execution. The state Department of Corrections said he was ...