Prosecutors raise concerns about lack of evidence as family of victim supports saving Williams from the death penalty
Missouri is slated to execute a man on death row on Tuesday, despite objections from prosecutors who have suggested he was wrongfully convicted.
Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, 55, is due to be killed by lethal injection even after the office of the St Louis county prosecuting attorney, which originally convicted him, sought to have his case overturned. Prosecutors have raised concerns about the lack of DNA evidence linking Williams to the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle and have said that Williams did not get a fair trial.
Although the prosecuting office and victim’s family backed an agreement to have Williams avoid the death penalty, Missouri’s Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, has fought to allow the execution to proceed.
“The public doesn’t want this execution to move forward. The victim’s family doesn’t want this execution to move forward and the St Louis county prosecuting attorney’s office doesn’t want this execution to move forward,” said Jonathan Potts, one of Williams’s attorneys, in an interview Monday. “The attorney general’s office, who had nothing to do with this whatsoever, are the ones who are trying to lead him to the death chamber. It’s pretty startling and extraordinary.”
If they know he’s innocent and they kill him anyways, that sounds like murder.
The governor doesn’t want to look weak on the wrongly convicted.
It is murder either way.
I checked and murder is wrong but it’s very wrong so you can murder someone who committed murder because then murder isn’t wrong because you’re wronging in the right way against a wronger
that’s bad and wrong
There should be a new word for that, like… badong
swinging a chain, swinging a chain
Man do the Republicans / GOP / Conservatives / Religions right L O V E violence. They absolutely love it.
It seems they are sacks of fear, which leads them to be defensive and hateful and “hard” just so that everything’s in order and safe because they fear everything and everyone. I wish their amygdala wasn’t overactive…
Mike Parson is a murderer. RIP Marcellus.
Executing INNOCENT People is called being PRO LIFE Libtards!
“Fuck the facts, kill the man and we’ll talk later”
Abolish capital punishment!
This here is a perfect reason why you should.
At which point do we start calling Andrew Bailey what he is, a murderer?
Pretty soon if this shit goes through
It’s too late, they killed him despite the prosecutors and victims family and DNA evidence all saying pointing towards his innocence. I have seen stories about him everywhere for the last week but apparently Missouri isn’t bothered by negative press, they just love killing black people. An aptly named state; I hope its residents riot but I’ve been to St. Louis and know better than that. The new status quo.
Well, I mean, they don’t want to appear lenient on the wrongfully convicted.
Leela: We’ve petitioned the governor. But he doesn’t want to appear soft on people who’ve been falsely imprisoned.
Yeah, if they let this guy go, other innocent people might start getting ideas.
You could have just stopped at lenient. They’re Republicans, they have no morals or empathy.
republicans? i think it is pronounced racists
Potato potato
It’s the exact same picture
Hey now, some of them are just incredibly, monumentally stupid. Half of the people are below average you know.
When prosecutors make the argument… JFC
Our legal system is an abortion
This murder will be an actual example of a post-term abortion that the right has been pretending to be scared of, ironically enough
Oh my God; that’s such a great way to put it!
I’m pretty sure Republicans are quite content with the current legal system, but they hate abortions, so it’s more like…a burning homeless shelter? A Puppy- stomping-Yard? An all-you-can-touch daycare?..uhm… What do republicans like else?
We don’t have a legal system. That assumes that figuring out if the law was broken is the primary goal. We have a punishment system. The primary goal is to hand out the harshest punishment that they can get away with, provided you don’t have the financial means to be fast tracked over to the slap on the wrist system set aside for rich folks.
The system is working as intended.
Thanks, I prefer Australia where only the plants and animals try to kill you.
I’ve never seen Australian exceptionalism. But, I’m not surprised.
Was it a kangaroo that firebombed friendlyjordies house?
Missouri’s Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, has fought to allow the execution to proceed.
"The attorney general’s office, who had nothing to do with this whatsoever, are the ones who are trying to lead him to the death chamber. It’s pretty startling and extraordinary.”
I recognize that this is a horrible tragedy for this man and his family, and I hope there is somehow a last-second reprieve, but let this be yet another reminder - R is the party for those with no empathy, no compassion, no concern for anyone not like them. (and that includes the ones jumping from Trump’s sinking ship to cozy up to Harris.) If a Republican is running for any position in your town, any at all, vote for someone else.
It’s almost comical how easily you can predict the party affiliations in these stories.
And yet people here still try to push a “bOtH SiDeS” narrative…
Rule 465: Anyone pushing both sides is actually just pushing one side with plausible deniability.
But I’ve been told in no uncertain terms that .ml and hexbear were the instances full of people arguing in bad faith…
The “pro-life” party is filled with genocide apologists, pedophiles, and murderers.
you left out racists
That’s technically covered by “genocide apologists” I think.
Nazis. Scalps.
Holy shit, even the prosecutors have concerns? When they have concerns about the punishment, you know you seriously screwed up and need to reevaluate.
The victims family too.
Had* concerns. The state murdered him today.
So at what point can this just be called what it is? Murder. A republican is trying to take advantage of his position to murder a black man.
