“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
They need to stop saying “Missouri” and start calling them out by name. The governor and judge lynched this man.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Felicia_Gayle if you’re interested.
Everyone from the Attorney General down to the guy giving the lethal injection is a murderer.
Governor could have done something, right?
He did do something, which was to disband the committee investigating whether this man was wrongfully convicted or not and then later he denied a stay of execution.
This is also the case for all other executions – it’s just state-sanctioned murder – but this case is so clearly awful and a racist lynching that hopefully it starts waking up the people who defend the death penalty.
Williams’ attorneys responded that the girlfriend and Cole were both convicted of felonies and wanted a $10,000 reward. They said that fingerprints, a bloody shoeprint, hair and other evidence at the crime scene didn’t match Williams’.
A crime scene investigator had testified the killer wore gloves.
Questions about DNA evidence also led St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell to request a hearing challenging Williams’ guilt. But days before the Aug. 21 hearing, new testing showed that DNA on the knife belonged to members of the prosecutor’s office who handled it without gloves after the original crime lab tests.
I thought I read somewhere else his gf rescinded her testimony too. Wouldn’t be surprised if the prosecutor did the murder.
The prosecution also believes he didn’t have a fair trial
Fucking vile. Insane the bloodlust present in too many people in this fucking country.
Look, if you don’t test the equipment on innocent people every now and then, how are you going to know if it works on the guilty people? Am I right?
We all hope we don’t end up in the control group.
Have you tried being white? I hear that helps to avoid it.
Like everything else in this backwards cursed fucking place, The Cruelty Is The Point.
Well, with the way prisons are managed, this might be better then dying from heatstroke in a box in the yard. And that’s a pretty sad state to be in.
Leave it to the south (Missouri is south-adjacent) to inflict the greatest cruelty. Doesn’t matter if you did it. You need to die.
before anyone says ACHSKULLY The prESidEnT doEsn’t HAve Any auThOritY to StoP tHIS, yes they do. they’re a politician. negotiate. presidents break the law all the time.
wtf is that headline?
Straight from AP.
Yes, I’m criticizing the AP for not mentioning the man’s innocence or lack of evidence and non-recanted witness statements.
Agreed, the headline makes it sound like the family was being merciful despite his conviction. Nope, Missouri just lynched a man.
