Conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are under fire for refusing to halt the execution of Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams, who died by lethal injection Tuesday evening. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murder of Felicia Gayle, who was found fatally stabbed in her St. Louis apartment in 1998. His lawyers had requested a last-minute stay on his execution before Missouri's governor and state Supreme Court, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court, although all three refused to intervene in the days leading up...
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