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CRIME & SAFETY
Hearing set to determine if a Missouri death row inmate is innocent. His execution is a month later
A Missouri judge on Tuesday set an Aug. 21 date for a hearing to determine if Marcellus Williams is innocent of the murder that landed him on death row — a hearing that comes just a little over a month before Williams is scheduled to die.Williams, 55, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle during a robbery of her suburban St. Louis home. He was hours away from execution in August 2017 when he was given a reprieve after testing unavailable at the time of the killing showed that DNA on the knife...
Gamble Court Date on Murder Charges
St. Francois Co., Mo. (KFMO) - A former Potosi man, Thomas E. Gamble, will be in St. Francois County Circuit Court August 2, 2024 on charges of first degree murder, armed criminal action, tampering with physical evidence in a felony prosecution, and abandonment of a corpse in connection with the murder of John Parton of High Ridge.
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