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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Oswald purchased the rifle by mail.
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.
Guilty.
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.
His suggestion is for every capital case to be referred to him for his approval.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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,
“...Williams was Black, while Gayle was white...”
“...Williams was Black, while Gayle was white...”
“Ebony, Ivory.....”
Good points
👊
“So, that looks like a preponderance of evidence.”
Oh. Totally. He’ll be voting Democrat in November.
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?
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."
I think a few have said it.
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
Or what he ate for his last meal?
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