
A Missouri inmate is set to die today – even after a prosecutor fought to have his conviction repealed based on new evidence
CNN
The Missouri inmate will be executed Tuesday evening unless the US Supreme Court intervenes with a stay of execution.
The office that prosecuted him wants his murder conviction overturned. The family of the woman he’s accused of killing has agreed to a life sentence for the inmate instead of the death penalty. But Marcellus Williams is scheduled to die tonight after Missouri’s supreme court and governor refused to grant a stay of execution following a flurry of appeal efforts based on new evidence. Williams was convicted in 2001 of killing Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter found stabbed to death in her home in 1998. The 55-year-old is set to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CT on Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre unless the US Supreme Court intervenes. But recently, the top prosecutor in St. Louis County joined Williams’ attorneys in asking for Williams’ conviction to be overturned after new testimony from the 2001 trial prosecutor and recent DNA testing showing evidence contamination.

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