After the commission disbanded Williams agreed to plead guilty with an Alford plea and accept life in prison but that deal was rejected by the courts so the execution moved forward.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/24/us/marcellus-williams-schedul...
https://innocenceproject.org/who-is-marcellus-williams-man-f...
> Both of these individuals were known fabricators; neither revealed any information that was not either included in media accounts about the case or already known to the police. Their statements were inconsistent with their own prior statements, with each other’s accounts, and with the crime scene evidence, and none of the information they provided could be independently verified. Aside from their testimony, the only evidence connecting Mr. Williams to the crime was a witness who said Mr. Williams sold him a laptop taken from Ms. Gayle’s home, but the jury did not learn that Mr. Williams told the witness he had received the laptop from Laura Asaro.
https://innocenceproject.org/who-is-marcellus-williams-man-f...
The DNA evidence was never the main thrust of the case.
FWIW I am against the death penalty since it gives too much power to the state. But slanting the news is not a good way forward.