You ready? I was born ready. Hey! I'm Sarah Isker. That's David French and David we thought we'd start a little bit with a death penalty case that you've been following.

There was an execution this week. Yes, there was execution on Wednesday evening.

It was execution of a man named Marcellus Williams and he was convicted of killing a 42 year old

former St. Louis post-dispatch reporter named Felicia and Gail.

Always when we talk about these death penalty cases, we try when we talk about these death

penalty cases to never just stampede past the crime and to ignore the victim in the case because

all of these cases begin with a horror of beyond horror and this is no exception.

Somebody broke in to the house.

She was in the house when they broke in and was stabbed brutally,

I mean just brutally murdered, just a terrible,

terrible crime.

And so always I think it's so important

to acknowledge the horror of what happened

at the seed of these crimes

before we then talk about all get into sort of the dry legal procedural stuff.

But so this was a terrible, terrible crime.

It went unsolved for about 15 months until police charged Williams with the crime.

And at first glance, the case looked really pretty strong.

I mean, first, Williams was not a sympathetic defendant at all.

He had previous convictions for burglary and armed robbery.

And he was accused of the crime by two people, his girlfriend, and a jail house informant.

And they told a really terrible story.

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