Missouri Man Execution Rejected

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Missouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his life

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Marcellus Williams , 55 , was convicted in the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle .

Gayle was repeatedly stabbed during the burglary of her suburban St. Louis home.

Williams ' hopes of having his sentence commuted to life in prison suffered dual setbacks Monday .

The Missouri Supreme Court declined to grant him a stay of execution.

Larner testified at the August hearing that he struck one potential Black juror partly because he looked too much like Williams — a statement that Williams ’ attorneys asserted showed improper racial bias. Larner contended that the jury selection process was fair. Williams was the third Missouri inmate put to death this year and the 100th since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 1989 ..