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January 24, 2015
The Missouri Supreme Court has called off an execution of a man convicted of killing a former newspaper reporter, state officials said Thursday.
The court withdrew the execution warrant for Marcellus Williams, 46, whose execution was scheduled for next Wednesday.
A court spokeswoman declined to discuss the reason.
After a state record 10 executions in 2014, Williams’ execution was the first scheduled in Missouri this year.
Williams was convicted of the 1998 fatal stabbing of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who left the paper in 1992.
Williams’ attorneys had asked the courts to stop the execution, citing a lack of evidence. They also sought additional DNA testing they said could prove Williams was innocent.
Messages left with those attorneys and with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office were not immediately returned.
Williams was burglarizing Gayle’s University City home when he realized she was in the shower. He took a knife from the kitchen and attacked her when she came downstairs, stabbing her more than 20 times before stealing a laptop computer and other items.
