Jefferson City, MO August 22, 2017 (STL.NEWS) Stay of Execution; In 2001, a jury convicted Marcellus Williams of the first-degree murder of Felicia Gayle. Williams was sentenced to death. DNA testing of the murder weapon, conducted in 2016, was inconclusive. In furtherance of the Governor’s constitutional power to grant pardons and executive clemency, state law […]

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