Turns out it was 72 Hermans after all.
Posted on 09/25/2024 9:19:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams despite concerns that the convicted murderer might have been innocent.
Williams died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday at Missouri state prison in Bonne Terre. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who was fatally stabbed during a daytime burglary.
Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson, Missouri's Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court all rejected last-minute attempts to halt the execution, ignoring clemency pleas from Williams' lawyers, prosecutors and members of the victim's family.
Missouri Department of Corrections Communications Director Karen Pojmann emailed Newsweek the following handwritten "final statement" from Williams: "All Praise Be to Allah in Every Situation!!!"
Marcellus Williams, 55, was executed in Missouri by lethal injection on Tuesday for a 1998 murder despite prosecutors and the victim's family calling for clemency. Courtesy of Marcellus Williams’ legal team Williams submitted his final statement to prison officials in the days before his scheduled execution.
Officials said that Williams ate a last meal of chicken wings and Tater Tots shortly before 11 a.m. Tuesday and was visited in his final hours by Imam Jalahii Kacem, who accompanied him to the execution room.
The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office urged officials and courts to call off the execution over concerns regarding the trial's jury selection and potential racial bias—Williams was Black, while Gayle was white—alongside the fact that DNA evidence did not tie Williams to the murder.
"Even for those who disagree on the death penalty, when there is a shadow of a doubt of any defendant's guilt, the irreversible punishment of execution should not be an option," St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell said in a statement.
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That and the barely bothered to get informed types also busy with their own lives who follow “influencers” and swallow all the slop said “influencers” peddle online.
They’re also freaking out over things without knowing what they are freaking over let alone why.
Literally “I was just following orders” with no introspection.
What was the cell mate in for?
One less piece of crap that we need to deal with.
I loved Ginger Baker’s drum solo in Toad.
Sorry wrong thread.
(But her blood was on his clothin so....)
I was looking yesterday trying to find out what happened when I saw it posted by Nextrush
(who follow “influencers” and swallow all the slop said “influencers” peddle online)
I know someone addicted to those types of people 🙄🙄🙄
Correct
Why is this news?
What makes the MSM think anyone cares what a convicted murderer has to say just before he dies?
You don’t think the victim’s family and friends deserve to know? And future potential murderers deserve to get the warning.
Yeah, same.
Just once I’d like to see one of these murdering scumbags last words be “Yep I did it and deserve to die, and it should have happened the day after my conviction.”
Throw the koranimal in a hole and be done with it.
The other guy executed that day said those (almost) exact words.
There have been some that have done what you have suggested but their lawyers kept trying to get their executions stopped; until the prisoners themselves insisted that all such interventions stop. Many times the judge gives such people life without parole and not a death sentence when the person out and out confesses.
“Williams died by lethal injection”
One less vote for Democrats.
Disgusting, what a waste of chicken wings and tater tots.
sigh
18 people have been exonerated from the death penalty by DNA
Its worth discussing
I’ve always been very pro killing when justified
But I’m ambivalent on this
Is that risk worth it
Maybe that could be argued
Most folks on death row are dead to right guilty
It’s those trials that were likely bit questionable that merit scrutiny
Throwing away the key isn’t the same unless you’re gonna Silverstein them which is why I will go on record here saying I think 37 years in box with essentially no human contact mostly underground is yes cruel and unusual
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