Leonard Pitts: The day Marcellus Williams didn’t die

Last week, on the day he was scheduled to die, Marcellus Williams didn’t.Just hours before he was to be strapped down and pumped full of poison, Williams, the convicted killer of Felicia “Lisha” Gayle, a former reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, received a reprieve. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens stayed the execution and announced formation of a panel to review the case.To be sure, no one will ever mistake Williams for a choir boy. At the time he was charged with Gayle&rsqu