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The US Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution request for a Missouri inmate scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday evening.
Attorneys for Marcellus Williams, 53, who has been convicted of the 1998 death of Lisha Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, submitted two requests to stay his execution on Monday. The first was connected to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals refusing to hear his case on newly discovered evidence of racial bias in jury selection. The court rejected the claim on Saturday.
The second focused on claims from the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office that Williams might be innocent. Office officials recently filed a motion to vacate his conviction.
The requests were submitted to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who denied them around 6pm ET on Tuesday.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson dissented from the second request.
Williams is scheduled to be executed around 6pm CT.
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