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His Best Chance to Get Off Death Row Was DNA on the Murder Weapon, but Prosecutors “Contaminated” the Evidence

Long before the 2001 trial started, then-St. Louis County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Keith Larner decided the butcher knife used to kill Felicia...

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A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.

A St. Louis County, Missouri, judge upheld the murder conviction of Marcellus Williams, ruling that a prosecutor who contaminated key evidence by...

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Missouri Kills Marcellus Williams Over Objections From Prosecutor and Victim’s Family

After a string of courts failed to intervene and the state’s governor declined to offer clemency, Missouri prison officials executed Marcellus...

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