Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams was executed by lethal injection Tuesday for the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle.

Williams was executed despite pleas for clemency from prosecutors and family members of murder victim Felicia Gayle.

Marcellus Williams was convicted in the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle in Missouri, but DNA testing raised questions.

Marcellus Williams, convicted of killing Lisha Gayle in 1998, faced execution despite the victim’s family and prosecutor ...

The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not ...

A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday over the objections ...

Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in ...

A Missouri man is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, even though the prosecutor's office that secured his murder conviction ...

A judge accepted a plea of no contest last month which would have spared Marcellus Williams’ life, but that deal was scuttled ...

Marcellus Williams had long proclaimed he was innocent in the 1998 fatal stabbing of Felicia Gayle in a St Louis, Missouri, ...