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.”
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…
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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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
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.
Yeah, if they let this guy go, other innocent people might start getting ideas.
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
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.
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.
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…
What is the even the point of the justice system then???
To help silver haired white men
As long as they are rich.
How could I forget the most important part of the equation?
America doesn’t have a justice system, it has a legal system
Punishment System
Well, it ain’t a justice system, that’s painfully obvious to the Black community.
To enslave and kill black people, of course.
And poor people. So that we all toe the line.
A system is what it does, don’t let the deliberate misnomer fool you.
Conservatives love their Justice Porn.
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.
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.
“Fuck the facts, kill the man and we’ll talk later”
At which point do we start calling Andrew Bailey what he is, a murderer?
Pretty soon if this shit goes through
The attorney general argued in court that the prosecutor at the time denied racial motivations for removing Black jurors and asserted there was nothing improper about touching the murder weapon without gloves at the time.
The attorney general is an idiot and lacking in basic evidence collection knowledge.
Don’t give them the benefit of the doubt.
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?
