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Marcellus Williams' Final Words Before Missouri Execution
Newsweek ^ | Sep 25, 2024 | Aila Slisco

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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To: MachIV
One less vote for Democrats.

Not necessarily. Dead people vote all the time.

41 posted on 09/26/2024 1:42:15 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: DesertRhino

Despite his life of crime, confessing to his girlfriend and threatening to kill her, getting found with the victims purse, knowing details about the murder the police kept secret, selling the laptop stolen at the murder scene, despite witnesses seeing him in a blood soaked shirt immediately afterwards, and more. Despite all that, there are concerns he might be innocent. /s

LMAO. I looked this case up yesterday and read about the overwhelming proof they had that this guy was guilty. Lying media.


42 posted on 09/26/2024 1:57:07 AM PDT by bort
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

He’s already stood before his Maker, and the justice he has received is perfect; let’s leave it at that.


43 posted on 09/26/2024 2:40:39 AM PDT by Captain Walker ("It is infinitely better to have a few good Men, than many indifferent ones." - George Washington)
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To: nickcarraway

According to the MSM, every black should get one “get out of the injection gurney free” card, because reparations. As long as the victim is white, of course.


44 posted on 09/26/2024 3:35:23 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Right Brother

>> Allah is of no help in his present situation.

Or any situation.


45 posted on 09/26/2024 3:38:06 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: SaveFerris

>> I know someone addicted to those types of people 🙄🙄🙄

“Easily Influenced”, eh? What an unpleasant way to go through life!


46 posted on 09/26/2024 3:40:11 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: nickcarraway

Wasn’t he surprised when he discovered that his 72 virgins all looked like Yassir Arafat!


47 posted on 09/26/2024 3:59:55 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: wardaddy
Yes,I really like DNA for two reasons:
1) It increases the chances that the truly guilty will face justice.
2) It lessens the chances that the truly innocent will be wrongly convicted.
48 posted on 09/26/2024 4:03:25 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: wardaddy

That’s how I feel. If 100% guilty, then execution. But there can be no question about guilt.


49 posted on 09/26/2024 4:13:12 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: RightOnTheBorder

That makes it sound like the DNA tests were inconclusive. They neither support or deny innocence.


50 posted on 09/26/2024 4:20:07 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: nickcarraway
Took 10 pages of links to find those. Your welcome.

https://law.justia.com/cases/missouri/supreme-court/2003/sc-83934-1.html

51 posted on 09/26/2024 4:36:54 AM PDT by Ikeon (If the we outlaw margarine, the world would be a butter place)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe. Might be good for them to not know either. But you can tell just them and not announce it to the whole world.


52 posted on 09/26/2024 4:50:03 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: nickcarraway

Why does it take 23 years to carry out a sentence?


53 posted on 09/26/2024 5:28:16 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Right Brother

“final statement” from Williams: “All Praise Be to Allah in Every Situation!!!”


He’s going to love those 72 vegans. Allah was a bad speller....


54 posted on 09/26/2024 5:32:21 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: nickcarraway
…when there is a shadow of a doubt of any defendant’s guilt …

A jury of his peers stated that there was no reasonable doubt about his guilt.

55 posted on 09/26/2024 5:45:52 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: MayflowerMadam

See above.


56 posted on 09/26/2024 5:51:22 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: DesertRhino

At the very least, he was an accessory after the fact.


57 posted on 09/26/2024 5:53:08 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: No name given

That’s because allah is actually satan in disguise.
*****
That’s what I believe.


58 posted on 09/26/2024 5:54:14 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: DesertRhino
despite...

Jessica Fletcher's flawless and legally admissible female intuition that the real killer was a real estate developer who was going to despoil a national park by building a nuclear power plant on the access road with a fast food restaurant in the parking lot.

59 posted on 09/26/2024 5:56:47 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Right Brother
"final statement" from Williams: "All Praise Be to Allah in Every Situation!!!"

I will take that as an admission of guilt.

60 posted on 09/26/2024 5:57:55 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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