The same prosecutor’s office who convicted Marcellus Williams of murder now says that evidence clears the 55-year-old’s name. His victim’s family agrees.
is set to execute 55-year-old death row inmate Marcellus Williams on Tuesday evening — despite pleas from prosecutors and even his victim’s family.
Williams has maintained for decades that he didn’t enter Gayle’s home on Aug. 6, 1998, and fatally stab her 43 times with a butcher’s knife before stealing her purse and her husband’s laptop, as prosecutors alleged.Investigators recorded fingerprints, footprints, hair, and DNA on a kitchen knife at the crime scene, but the investigation went on for more than a year before police arrested Williams.
Still, defense attorneys argued that Williams’ ex-cellmate and girlfriend were both gunning for the $10,000 reward put forward by Gayle’s family, which made them willing to make up lies if it’d personally benefit them. In the end, neither received the payout.
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