US convict granted stay of execution after new DNA evidence
This Missouri Department of Corrections photo shows death-row inmate Marcellus Williams (AFP Photo/)/ Chicago (AFP) - With only hours to spare, the governor of the US state of Missouri on Tuesday halted the execution of a man whose lawyers argued new DNA evidence exonerated him of a 1998 murder. Governor Eric Greitens stayed the execution of Marcellus Williams, 48, who was convicted of fatally stabbing a woman more than 40 times during a robbery at her home in the Midwestern state. Williams was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection ...
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