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    Oklahoma executes man despite parole board recommends sparing his life | Death Penalty News
    Alabama

    Oklahoma executes man despite parole board recommends sparing his life | Death Penalty News

    In the US state of Oklahoma, a man was executed by authorities despite a parole board’s recommendation that Emmanuel Littlejohn’s life be spared. Littlejohn, 52, was executed by lethal injection Thursday morning for the 1992 robbery of a store owner…

    Posted on Idris Bevan
    Oklahoma prepares for execution after parole board recommends sparing man’s life
    Alabama

    Oklahoma prepares for execution after parole board recommends sparing man’s life

    OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prepared to execute a man Thursday as it waited for Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt to decide whether to spare the death row inmate’s life and grant a rare Petition for clemency by the State Parole…

    Posted on Idris Bevan
    Missouri executes death row inmate Marcellus Williams for murdering a woman in 1998
    New Jersey

    Missouri executes death row inmate Marcellus Williams for murdering a woman in 1998

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman’s home and killing her, despite demands from her family and the prosecutor who put him on death row to let him spend the rest…

    Posted on Seren Anwen
    Supreme Court sharply criticized after execution of Marcellus Williams
    Colorado

    Supreme Court sharply criticized after execution of Marcellus Williams

    Conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are under criticism for refusing to stop the execution of death row inmate Marcellus Williams of Missouri, who died by lethal injection on Tuesday evening. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for…

    Posted on Madoc Meredith
    Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite doubts about his conviction | Death penalty news
    Colorado

    Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri despite doubts about his conviction | Death penalty news

    The 55-year-old was convicted in 2003 of the murder of Lisha Gayle during an apparently botched burglary. Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of murder 21 years ago, was executed in the midwestern state of Missouri despite doubts about the integrity…

    Posted on Madoc Meredith
    Marcellus Williams executed despite protests and requests for clemency
    Albany

    Marcellus Williams executed despite protests and requests for clemency

    MID-MISSOURI – Marcellus Williams was executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Bonne Terre. Although Governor Mike Parson rejected Williams’s pardon for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle in St. Louis County, protesters gathered across central Missouri before his execution, calling…

    Posted on Madoc Meredith
    Missouri executes man for 1998 murder of woman despite her family’s requests to spare his life
    Frisco

    Missouri executes man for 1998 murder of woman despite her family’s requests to spare his life

    BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman’s home and killing her, despite demands from her family and the prosecutor who put him on death row to let him spend the rest…

    Posted on Bronwen Cerys
    Missouri judge rejects Marcellus Williams’ claim of innocence as he faces execution
    Frisco

    Missouri judge rejects Marcellus Williams’ claim of innocence as he faces execution

    ST. LOUIS (AP) — A judge on Thursday declined to consider the conviction and death sentence against Marcellus Williamsa Missouri man is scheduled to be executed later this month for stabbing a woman to death in 1998, although there are…

    Posted on Bronwen Cerys
    How a Missouri inmate escapes death row
    Duluth

    How a Missouri inmate escapes death row

    KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The state of Missouri will execute Marcellus Williams on Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, despite efforts to rehabilitate the 55-year-old. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt to intervene in the case on…

    Posted on Eira Gwyneth
    Despite pleas from the victim’s family and prosecutors, Marcellus Williams is about to be executed in Missouri
    Alabama

    Despite pleas from the victim’s family and prosecutors, Marcellus Williams is about to be executed in Missouri

    In Missouri, 55-year-old death row inmate Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday evening – despite pleas from prosecutors and even his victim’s family. Missouri Governor Mike Parson and his Supreme Court said Monday that there was enough…

    Posted on Idris Bevan

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