Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed Sept. 24. He never received a hearing for an innocence claim that some officials believe is legitimate.
Missouri has scheduled the execution of death row inmate Marcellus Williams, even though he was never granted a hearing for an innocence claim that some officials believe could be legitimate.The 55-year-old was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 2003 for the killing of Felicia Gayle at her home in University City, a St. Louis suburb, five years earlier, court filings show.
Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell filed a motion to vacate Williams' sentence altogether. The motion referred to a Missouri law allowing a prosecuting attorney to move to vacate or set aside a conviction 'at any time if he or she has information that the convicted person may be innocent or may have been erroneously convicted.' Passed in 2021, the law gives prosectors standing to request hearings in cases where they believe there is evidence of a wrongful conviction.
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