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    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
    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
    Inmate dies by lethal injection in first execution in South Carolina in 13 years
    Duluth

    Inmate dies by lethal injection in first execution in South Carolina in 13 years

    COLUMBIA, SC (WCSC/AP) – South Carolina executed inmate Freddie Owens on Friday, resuming executions after an inadvertent 13-year hiatus because prison officials were unable to obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections. Owens was convicted in 1997 of killing a…

    Posted on Eira Gwyneth

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