Missouri
Missouri Kills Marcellus Williams Over Objections From Prosecutor, Victim’s Family
Attorney General Andrew Bailey scuttled a deal that would have spared Marcellus Williams’s life, and the courts and governor declined to stop the execution.
After a string of courts failed to intervene and the state’s governor declined to offer clemency, Missouri prison officials executed Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Tuesday evening for a 1998 murder he said he did not commit.
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