A Missouri man convicted of breaking into a woman’s home and repeatedly stabbing her was executed Tuesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court, the last body that could have halted the execution, declined to intervene in the case hours before Marcellus Williams, 55, was put to death by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. at a prison in Bonne Terre.
His death came a day after both Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and the state’s highest court also rejected his last-ditch bids to avoid execution.
Williams was found guilty in 2003 of killing Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, a former newspaper reporter who was stabbed to death in her home. He had maintained his innocence….