On June 4, the Missouri Supreme Court set a September execution date for a man named Marcellus Williams. Williams is most likely innocent of the charges against him. On Aug. 11, 1998, a 42-year-old former Saint Louis Post-Dispatch reporter named Felicia Anne Gayle was found stabbed to death in her home. She’d been stabbed 43 times; her husband found her with the knife still in her neck. Despite the media coverage and the intense interest in the case, the murder went unsolved for 15 months, until the police charged Williams with the crime.

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Persons: Marcellus Williams, There’s, Williams, —, Saint Louis, Felicia Anne Gayle, She’d, Laura Asaro, Henry Cole Organizations: Missouri Supreme, Saint, Saint Louis Post, Dispatch Locations: Missouri