Marcellus Williams II holds his son Sadir Williams, 3, as he speaks to reporters outside the courthouse in Clayton about a deal prosecutors reached with his father Marcellus “Khaliifah ...

The state of Missouri is slated to execute Marcellus Williams on Tuesday.Convicted of killing Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle more than 25 years ago, Williams was sentenced to death in 2001.

Wesley Bell to appeal Marcellus Williams' death sentence Williams is set to be executed on Sept. 24 for the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle in the St. Louis suburb of University City.

Wesley Bell seeks to overturn conviction of Marcellus Williams, an inmate who has spent decades on death row Bell's court filing cites DNA evidence that hasn't been presented in court.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is seeking to overturn the conviction of death row inmate Marcellus Williams — using a relatively new state law that allows prosecutors to ...

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is seeking to vacate the conviction of Marcellus Williams, who was sent to Missouri’s death row in 2001 for a murder he swore he did not commit. ...

St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell vowed to "continue to work to prevent" the execution of a man he does not believe is the likely killer Marcellus Williams' Legal Team A county prosecutor in ...

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Bell’s case argues following testing, that DNA on the knife used to kill Gayle did not belong to Williams. Former Gov. Eric Greitens also halted his execution in 2017 when the new DNA evidence ...

A St. Louis County DA had moved to overturn Marcellus Williams’ conviction. Twelve days ahead of his Sept. 24 execution, a judge ruled it will stand.

Now, the contamination itself would be at the center of current elected county prosecutor Wesley Bell’s efforts to overturn Williams’s conviction. According to Bell, the state’s willful ...