Ex-judges to review evidence in Missouri death penalty case

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

ST. LOUIS -- Gov. Mike Parson will allow a panel of five former judges to review the death penalty case of Marcellus Williams, whose guilt in the stabbing death of a former newspaper reporter has been called into question by DNA evidence.

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