For too long, this country’s criminal legal system has perpetuated violence, brutality, and murder, with Black people bearing the brunt. While methods may change, the underlying outcomes remain the ...
In the U.S., individuals can face the death penalty even when their guilt is not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. A ...
On Oct. 15, the Afro-American society, Al-Nur Muslim Student Association, Dartmouth Asian American Studies Collective and Spare Rib Magazine held a vigil for Marcellus Williams ... guilty in 2003 of ...
Last month, the state of Missouri executed 55-year-old Marcellus Williams, who spent two decades in prison, despite prosecutors’ efforts to overturn his conviction for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle ...
Marcellus Williams was executed in the state of Missouri ... Williams was first arrested in 1998 and charged for the first-degree murder of 42-year-old Felicia “Lisha” Anne Gayle. The Midwest ...
in 1977 who was convicted of the murder and ... last month, Marcellus Williams, a Black man from Missouri, was executed in the killing of a newspaper reporter named Felicia Gayle in 2001, despite ...
One of these men was Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, who died by lethal ... Williams was innocent of the 1998 murder of St. Louis reporter Felicia Gayle. None of the physical evidence ...