![Missouri Supreme Court upholds inmate’s execution warrant despite prosecutor motion to vacate conviction](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/11/Death-penalty-.jpg)
The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday upheld an execution warrant for Marcellus Williams even though a prosecutor filed a pending motion beforehand to vacate Williams’s 2003 first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. The court initially issued a warrant of execution set for January 28, 2015. It later vacated the execution date after Williams petitioned for [...]