SAINT LOUIS –
The governor of Missouri, Eric Greitens, has at the last moment the execution is stopped after the lawyers of the convicted defendant new evidence had proposed. The 48-year-old Marcellus Williams would Tuesday be put to death for the murder of a woman during a burglary in her home in August 1998. Thanks to improved dna technology has proven that he is the offender is.
Greitens decided the execution will be cancelled four hours before Williams a lethal injection would be given. He will be a committee formed that will examine the petition for clemency from Williams.