Missouri death row inmate Marcellus Williams' final eight-word statement is revealed as he is executed

Missouri decease enactment inmate Marcellus Williams was executed Tuesday nighttime pursuing a lengthy tribunal battle, during which adjacent prosecutors expressed doubts astir his case.

The 55-year-old was injected with a fatal dose of pentobarbital at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center successful Bonne Terre conscionable aft 6pm, and was pronounced dormant by 6.10, Fox 2 reports. 

Reporters connected the country said Williams was covered from caput to toed successful a achromatic expanse and appeared to wiggle his feet and determination his head. His thorax past heaved astir a fractional twelve times earlier it stopped, they said, noting Williams did not look to struggle. 

He had earlier released an eight-word last statement: 'All Praise Be To Allah In Every Situation!!!'

Williams had been connected decease enactment since helium was convicted successful 2001 of murdering Felicia 'Lisha' Gayle, a paper newsman who was recovered stabbed to decease successful her location successful 1998.

He has since appealed his condemnation aggregate times, arsenic his defence attorneys argued helium did not person a just trial.

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens adjacent halted his execution indefinitely and formed a committee of erstwhile judges to reappraisal the lawsuit and to find whether Williams should beryllium granted clemency.

It investigated Williams' lawsuit for the adjacent six years, but was abruptly unopen down nether existent Gov. Michael Parson, who scheduled Williams' execution.

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