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TWO MEN ON death row in the United States were executed yesterday, including a Black man convicted of murder who had maintained his innocence and drawn support from civil rights groups.

Marcellus Williams, 55, was sentenced to death in the midwestern state of Missouri for the 1998 killing of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter.

He was pronounced dead at 6:10pm local time Tuesday, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Travis Mullis, 38, was also put to death in Huntsville, Texas for stomping his three-month-old son, Alijah Mullis, to death in 2008.

“I do regret the decision to take the life of my son, I apologize to the mother of my son, the victim’s family,” Mullis said in his last statement.

Both men were executed by lethal injection, raising the total number of US executions this year to 16.

Williams has insisted he is innocent and the NAACP civil …