Despite calls for clemency, the state of Missouri executed a man Tuesday evening in Bonne Terre.
Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection at 6 PM Tuesday.
Williams was convicted first-degree murder in 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle.
On Monday, Governor Parson and the Missouri Supreme Court rejected a request for a new hearing and clemency petition that had been signed by Gayle’s family.
