Felicia Gayle

Missouri judge reviews death row inmate’s innocence claim

A Missouri judge conducted an evidentiary hearing on Wednesday to examine the innocence claim of death row inmate Marcellus Williams. Williams, 55, is scheduled for execution on 24 September for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found stabbed in her University City home. Convicted in 2001 of first-degree murder, burglary, and robbery,…