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MARCEL WILLIAMS Found guilty of abducting and killing Stacy Rae Errickson as she stopped at a Jacksonville gas station in November 1994 Scheduled for execution on April 24, 2017 Date of original condemnation: Jan. 14, 1997 County in which crime occurred: Pulaski ______ Marcel Williams abducted Stacy Errickson in November 1994 as she stopped at a gas station, later killing her and burying her body near the Arkansas River, prosecutors said. Police said Williams admitted to kidnapping 22-year-old Errickson on Nov. 20, 1994, at a Jacksonville convenience store and forcing her to withdraw money from several ATMs after she left work. He also confessed to raping, beating and choking the mother of two at Riverfront Park in North Little Rock before disposing of her body “where she could not be found.” 
Trista Wussick (right) puts her arm around Carolyn Moore after both spoke at a clemency hearing for Marcel Williams, who is scheduled to be put to death April 24 for raping and killing Stacy Errickson. Moore, Errickson’s mother, and Wussick, Errickson’s friend, spoke against clemency for Williams.A week after Williams’ arrest and 15 days after Errickson’s disappearance, the woman was found buried in a shallow grave on the grounds of an old nursery off Riverfront Drive, about 1 mile west of downtown North Little Rock. Errickson’s hands had been bound behind her back with a cord from her jacket, prosecutors said during Williams’ trial. The mother’s hosiery and lunch cooler were found at a storage facility, and the pickup Errickson was driving at the time of her abduction was later found abandoned at a gas station about 2 miles from one of the ATMs she was forced to stop at that night, authorities said. Three years after Errickson’s killing, Williams was sentenced Jan. 14, 1997, to die by lethal injection.  The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that the jury deliberated for an hour before imposing the death penalty. One juror left the courtroom crying. Before the trial began, Williams had already been serving three life sentences plus 70 years for two other attacks on women around the same time as Errickson’s death. In 1985, Williams, then 15, was convicted of one count of aggravated robbery and six counts of burglary, which carried a 20-year sentence. He had been out on parole since April 1994. _______ STACY ERRICKSON Errickson, 22, was a nurse technician at Arkansas Pediatric Facility, according to an obituary that ran Dec. 9, 1994, in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. She was the mother of two young children: a son, Bryan Errickson, and a daughter, Brittany Riley. “Justice has been served. It’s about time.” — Errickson’s twin brother, Tracy Sullivan, on Williams’ death sentence |