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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: alexander_busek

Oswald purchased the rifle by mail.


61 posted on 09/26/2024 6:01:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: nickcarraway
Officials said that Williams ate a last meal of chicken wings and...

Air fried? I am already planning to cook up air fried Bonaire Beach Club wings for a picnic on Oct. 13 to watch the Trump Boat Parade by the Intracoastal. It is supposed to be the BIGGEST boat parade in history so I want to enjoy really good wings while watching it. The wing sauce will be a combo of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce, Sirracha sauce, and honey sesame sauce.

62 posted on 09/26/2024 6:01:53 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Yes, I am the Toxic Troll Terminator..)
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To: Ikeon

Guilty.


63 posted on 09/26/2024 6:03:22 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: HIDEK6

Juries are not perfect. Sometimes prosecutors lie or distort, defense is sometimes incompetent or indifferent. In some cases there is room for doubt. This does not appear to be such a case.


64 posted on 09/26/2024 6:04:30 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The point is that the man offers reasonable doubt to be the test when the system has already accounted for the existence of reasonable doubt.

His suggestion is for every capital case to be referred to him for his approval.

65 posted on 09/26/2024 6:13:52 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: yldstrk
10 pages of " innocent man put to death" without a single snapshot of the evidence against him.. the jury wad white and his finger prints weren't on the knife. His 15 previous appeals weren't mentioned either.

The blood on his shirt, the threats to his girlfriend for finding the purse and laptop in his trunk, the confessions he made to others. No credible alibi for that day, he was tried and sentenced to 20 years for another armed robbery. 20 years! Must have been bad.

66 posted on 09/26/2024 6:29:16 AM PDT by Ikeon (If the we outlaw margarine, the world would be a butter place)
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To: Newtoidaho

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.”

Well, the a$$hat in Texas who stomped his 3 month old to death FINALLY waived all appeals (after 16 freakin’ years), and was put to death.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/breaking-death-tow-inmate-travis-mullis-executed-for-stomping-three-month-old-son-to-death-in-horror-murder/ar-AA1r9icB

In a letter submitted to US District Judge George Hanks in Houston, Mullis wrote in February that he had no desire to challenge his case any further.

Mullis, who had a long history of mental illness, previously took responsibility for his son’s death and said “his punishment fit the crime.” In the letter, Mullis said “he seeks the same finality and justice the state seeks.”


67 posted on 09/26/2024 6:45:22 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Well, I looked for the details of the case the other day, and couldn’t find any. However, others have posted:

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.

So, that looks like a preponderance of evidence.


68 posted on 09/26/2024 6:47:41 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Oswald purchased the rifle by mail.

I pulled the "JFK assassination" out of my *ss, since it's been done to death and would thus make clear that I was only positing hypotheticals.

My point is that, without additional context (like: "Oswald purchased the rifle by mail"), a perfectly true statement like "No receipt was found" can be very misleading.

A biased reporter hoping to inflame sentiments will therefore include some bit of data like "no DNA evidence at the crime scene," but then forego mentioning that tons of linking DNA evidence were found at the perp's residence for exactly that reason.

Regards,

69 posted on 09/26/2024 6:54:10 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: nickcarraway

“...Williams was Black, while Gayle was white...”


Well, of course he was innocent; it’s unheard of, black men killing white women.
/s


70 posted on 09/26/2024 7:32:55 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: hanamizu

“...Williams was Black, while Gayle was white...”


“Ebony, Ivory.....”


71 posted on 09/26/2024 7:33:31 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Good points


72 posted on 09/26/2024 7:33:55 AM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder by the Leftist haters of western civilization )
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To: MayflowerMadam

👊


73 posted on 09/26/2024 7:34:48 AM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder by the Leftist haters of western civilization )
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To: ro_dreaming

“So, that looks like a preponderance of evidence.”

Oh. Totally. He’ll be voting Democrat in November.


74 posted on 09/26/2024 8:01:43 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: DesertRhino
I'm trying to remember the poster boy that the media fawned over back in the 1990s for getting executed in Virginia when they all claimed he was innocent despite the chain of similar evidence.

Then DNA testing was perfected just a few year later and there was a big outcry to retest the case. So they did and it proved conclusively that he did it.

So the case was NEVER mentioned in the media again. Funny how that works, isn't it?

75 posted on 09/26/2024 10:37:20 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: wardaddy
A good friend of mine is a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy who has even been interviewed on some of those real crime shows because he was a respected homicide detective.

I once asked him what percentage of perps serving death or life sentences did he think were actually innocent.

He gave me a deadpan look and replied "Damn near 100%. If you don't believe it, just ask them."

76 posted on 09/26/2024 10:43:56 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ro_dreaming

I think a few have said it.


77 posted on 09/26/2024 1:58:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Vigilanteman

Very few guilty people in prison for sure lol

I’ve seen a few admit guilt

Frequently it’s not guilty for that particular charge

A high propensity for rationalization is a trait of the criminal bent

Except crimes of passion which can happen to fairly normal folk if pushed hard enough

Come home to find your beautiful dainty you love with all your heart getting slammed against the headboard heels up moaning louder than she ever did with you by some other hammer

That’s driven good men to lose sensibilities and lash out disastrously


78 posted on 09/26/2024 8:26:59 PM PDT by wardaddy (Thank you God for saving president Trump from murder by the Leftist haters of western civilization )
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To: metmom
What makes the MSM think anyone cares what a convicted murderer has to say just before he dies?

Or what he ate for his last meal?

79 posted on 09/28/2024 3:14:46 PM PDT by Conservative independent (When you rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always get Paul's vote.)
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