Marcellus Williams executed after two decades on death row
- The State of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to halt it, following refusals by Missouri's Supreme Court and Governor Mike Parson to intervene.
- Williams, 55, was executed by lethal injection at a prison in Bonne Terre, with The Innocence Project noting that his last appeals were also rejected on the previous day.
- British billionaire Richard Branson mourned Williams's execution and criticized it as a "devastating miscarriage of justice," emphasizing concerns about potential innocence.
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