Missouri
Missouri Supreme Court, governor refuse to halt execution of man convicted in 1998 killing of social worker
Marcellus Williams, 55, will be killed by lethal injection Tuesday at 6 p.m. for the fatal stabbing of Lisha Gayle, a social worker and former newspaper reporter, during a burglary at her St. Louis home in 1998.
The execution of a Missouri man convicted in a 1998 murder of a social worker is set to proceed as planned on Tuesday after the state’s Supreme Court and governor denied repeated requests to cancel the lethal injection.
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