BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK
A Missouri death row inmate by the name of Marcellus Williams was executed today by lethal injection. He was charged and convicted of the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former newspaper reporter who was brutally stabbed in her St. Louis home.
Williams was 55, and died shortly after 6:00 PM CDT at the Missouri state prison in Bonne, Terre - which is 60 miles south of St. Louis.
According to ABC news:
"Marcellus Williams should be alive today. There were multiple points in the timeline when decisions could have been made that would have spared him the death penalty. If there is even the shadow of a doubt of innocence, the death penalty should never be an option. This outcome did not serve the interests of justice," Wesley Bell, chief prosecutor for St. Louis County, said in a statement after the execution.
William's lawyers have maintained he was innocent. His defense claimed that his DNA was never found on the murder weapon, and 2 unidentified sources of DNA would lead to the killer.
This was the 100th execution in Missouri in total, and the 3rd this year. Missouri reinstated the punishment in 1989.
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