Staff Writer
Khaliifah ibn Rayfrod Daniels, also known as Marcellus Williams, was executed by the state of Missouri on Sept. 24 for the 1988 murder of Felicia Gayle, despite concerns citing his potential innocence. Williams died by lethal injection Tuesday evening at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correction Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. He was 55 years old.
Gayle was a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who was killed in her home. Prosecutors at William’s trial said he broke into her house and stabbed her 43 times with a large butcher knife in her kitchen when she came downstairs from her morning shower, according to AP News. Her purse and her husband’s laptop were stolen…