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Williams long maintained his innocence and the killing was opposed by victim’s family, jurors and office that tried him
Missouri executed a man on death row on Tuesday, despite objections from prosecutors who sought to have his conviction overturned and have supported his claims of innocence.
Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, 55, was killed by lethal injection, ending a legal battle that has sparked widespread outrage as the office that originally tried the case suggested he was wrongfully convicted.
In an extraordinary move condemned by civil rights advocates and lawmakers across the US, Missouri’s Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, pushed forward with the execution against the wishes of the St Louis county prosecuting attorney’s office.
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Missouri taking decisive action to be tough on the wrongly accused.
This country is pure evil and rotten to its core. There is no redemption for us. No one will come to save us. It is only going to get worse.
Abolish the death penalty. It only exists to satiate the blood lust of politicians and is more expensive than life imprisonment (when people are actually guilty).
Not arguing against what you said, but why does death penalty cost more than imprisoning for say 20 or more years?
He was (likely) wrongfully imprisoned for a crime that occurred 26 years ago. So it’s both long imprisonment and the costs of trying to overturn the conviction, including fact seeking, labs, lawyers, prosecutors, judges etc.
The imprisonment is generally at a higher security facility too which is costlier.
All of the legal costs associated with appeals I would assume.
Fuck every single person who was involved in allowing this innocent man to die. I would really like for karma to be real and that these people pay for their actions because from where I sit, they were the only people to actually murder someone here.
Nobody “allowed an innocent man to die.” He was murdered.
ACAB. Burn the justice system to the ground.
Sadly too many people think they can vote to reform it.
Other than the state and Andrew Bailey being a utter piece of elephant shit with bunny shit sprinkles on top, may he rest in peace and hopefully his family can seek actual justice someday in some form.
Fuck this state.
Andrew Bailey is a racist who would not wait to execute a black man
Andrew Bailey, the murderer? That Andrew Bailey?
That’ll teach you not to fuck with Andrew Bailey!
