Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams has been executed despite a prosecutor in the case and the victim’s family saying his life should be spared. Williams, 55, had been convicted of the 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St Louis Post-Dispatch. More than a million petitions were delivered to Missouri Governor Mike Parson’s office requesting a stay of execution, the WEproject, a non-profit that campaigned against Williams’s death. Posted By Persist