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 ...

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 ...

The 55-year-old was accused and convicted of the murder of 42-year-old reporter Felicia Gayle in 2001. Felicia Gayle was murdered in 1981 and her murder was linked to Marcellus Williams through the ...

Williams spent 20 years on death row after being found guilty in 2003 of killing Felicia Gayle ... connecting Williams to the murder weapon after new testing was conducted in 2016. The original ...

in 1977 who was convicted of the murder and mutilation of a librarian ... was executed in the killing of a newspaper reporter named Felicia Gayle in 2001, despite the fact that his DNA didn ...

She was identified as Felicia Hudson, 54 ... Police said Dean “had a history of arrests including for attempted murder in 2011 and an assault with a deadly weapon, a firearm, in 2019.

There is no doubt that Williams was innocent of the 1998 murder of St. Louis reporter Felicia Gayle. None of the physical evidence—bloody fingerprints, footprints and hairs—tied him to the ...

He was put to death by lethal injection for a murder he said he did not commit. In Aug. 1998, Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, was the victim of a fatal stabbing during a ...

Williams was first arrested in 1998 and charged for the first-degree murder of 42-year-old Felicia “Lisha” Anne Gayle. The Midwest Innocence Project, a legal group whose attorneys represented Williams ...

Hazel Thornton, who served as a juror during Erik and Lyle Menendez's 1993 trial for the murder of their parents, said that the men on the jury weren't swayed by the brothers' claims that their ...