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.
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
The governor doesn’t want to look weak on the wrongly convicted.
that’s bad and wrong
There should be a new word for that, like… badong
swinging a chain, swinging a chain
Tiny net. Death sentence.
Seriously though, Missouri just straight up murdered a human being.
Damn.
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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 sure seems to get something out of killing people
I wonder if it has anything to do with the colour of his skin… 🤔
It does, but they also just love killing.
Naaaaaaaaaahhhhh…
Isn’t this the same attorney general that refused to release prisoners that had been exonerated?
Yes, and wasted taxpayer dollars trying to get involved in the Trump documents case for some reason and trying to delay sentencing in the hush money case.
Mmmm
Wrongful Imprisonment (kidnapping)
Wrings that won’t flatten out after release…
I recognize all of those words, but cannot parse the meaning.
:3
Holy shit, even the prosecutors have concerns? When they have concerns about the punishment, you know you seriously screwed up and need to reevaluate.
Had* concerns. The state murdered him today.
The victims family too.
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.
Well, I mean, they don’t want to appear lenient on the wrongfully convicted.
You could have just stopped at lenient. They’re Republicans, they have no morals or empathy.
republicans? i think it is pronounced racists
It’s the exact same picture
Potato potato
Hey now, some of them are just incredibly, monumentally stupid. Half of the people are below average you know.
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.
At which point do we start calling Andrew Bailey what he is, a murderer?
Pretty soon if this shit goes through
Andrew Bailey is the absolute worst and wasn’t even elected. He was appointed by the governor after his predecessor was elected to the Senate. Somehow it looks like he is going to win in November which is so depressing.
What is the even the point of the justice system then???
America doesn’t have a justice system, it has a legal system
Punishment System
To help silver haired white men
As long as they are rich.
How could I forget the most important part of the equation?
To enslave and kill black people, of course.
And poor people. So that we all toe the line.
Well, it ain’t a justice system, that’s painfully obvious to the Black community.
A system is what it does, don’t let the deliberate misnomer fool you.
Conservatives love their Justice Porn.
“Fuck the facts, kill the man and we’ll talk later”
Abolish capital punishment!
This here is a perfect reason why you should.
You would think they would never execute someone without conclusive undeniable evidence. Yet here we are.
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…
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.
