Missouri, Texas execute 2 inmates over killings of woman, infant as more expected in other states

Missouri and Texas some enactment inmates to decease Tuesday, amid a bid of executions that began past week and are expected to proceed successful the coming days.  

A Missouri man connected decease enactment was executed for the brutal 1998 sidesplitting of a pistillate wrong her home, marking the opening of a bid of executions successful respective states implicit the adjacent mates of days. 

Marcellus Williams, 55, died by lethal injection, soon aft the U.S. Supreme Court denied his petition to intervene. Williams was enactment to decease for the 1998 sidesplitting of Lisha Gayle, a societal idiosyncratic and erstwhile paper newsman who was stabbed much than 40 times during a burglary astatine her location successful St. Louis.

His lawyer argued that the authorities supreme court should halt his execution implicit alleged procedural errors successful assemblage enactment and the prosecution's alleged mishandling of the execution weapon. 

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Marcellus Williams, 55, was executed Tuesday for the 1998 sidesplitting of a societal worker.  (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP)

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell had sought to acceptable speech Williams' sentence, citing questions astir his guilt. 

Gayle, 42, was a societal idiosyncratic and erstwhile St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter. Prosecutors astatine Williams’ proceedings said helium broke into her location connected Aug. 11, 1998, heard the ablution moving and recovered a ample butcher knife. 

Gayle was stabbed 43 times erstwhile she came downstairs. Her purse and her husband’s laptop were stolen.

Last month, Gayle’s relatives gave their blessing to an statement betwixt the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s bureau and Williams’ attorneys to commute the condemnation to beingness successful prison. But acting connected an entreaty from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s Office, the authorities Supreme Court nullified the agreement.

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Joseph Amrine, who was exonerated 2 decades agone aft spending years connected decease row, speaks astatine a rally to enactment Missouri decease enactment inmates Marcellus Williams connected Aug. 21, 2024, successful Clayton, Missouri. (AP)

Republican Gov. Mike Parson and the authorities ultimate tribunal each refused requests connected Monday from Williams successful an effort to debar his execution.

In Texas, Travis Mullis was pronounced dormant astatine the authorities penitentiary successful Huntsville astatine 7:01 p.m. for the sidesplitting of his 3-month-old son. Mullis, 38, was condemned to decease for stomping his lad Alijah to decease successful January 2008. 

Prosecutors said Mullis, past 21, drove to adjacent Galveston with his lad aft warring with his girlfriend. Mullis parked his car and sexually assaulted his son. After the babe began to outcry uncontrollably, Mullis began strangling his lad earlier taking him retired of the car and stomping connected his head, according to authorities.

The child's assemblage was recovered connected the broadside of the road. Mullis fled Texas but surrendered to authorities successful Philadelphia. One of his attorney's, Shawn Nolan, said helium didn't program to record immoderate further appeals anterior to the execution. 

He told an appeals tribunal that Mullis had been treated for "profound intelligence illness" since helium was 3 years old, was sexually abused arsenic a kid and was "severely bipolar." The U.S. Supreme Court has prohibited the usage of the decease punishment for the intellectually disabled, but not for those with superior intelligence illness.

Marcellus Williams and  Travis Mullis were some executed successful Missouri and Texas respectively connected Tuesday.  (AP)

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More executions were scheduled to instrumentality spot successful Oklahoma and Alabama. South Carolina conducted an execution Friday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.