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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despite concerns that the convicted murderer might have been innocent.
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
Allah is of no help in his present situation.
There were the typical hysterical blue hairs on Twitter freaking out about how an “innocent man was just MURDERED by the state” etc.
Unreal.
Here is his victim Felicia Gayle Picus with her dog. She was stabbed 42 times. May Marcellus rot in hell. Them.
May all-hah blast and protractor him.
Shameless rip of the final words of our Father among the Saints John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople:
"Glory to God for all things!"
Allah, the Father of Lies, will welcome him home.
May Allah’s demons being lining up to give Marcellus the “goat treatment”...
Kind of an odd phrase. Does that mean there was no DNA evidence or that DNA did not match the convicted? As I trust the government less and less I become hesitant to use the death penalty. That said this article feels like it purposely omitted the evidence that got Williams convicted.
But her blood was on his clothing so....
People have this TV inspired illusion that they always find DNA. They don't.
Murder committed in 1998 - only 26 years ago!
That’s speedy justice for the clogged toilet known as the American criminal-justice system.
“Despite all that, there are concerns he might be innocent. /s’
Even worse, the sleazebags tried to point the finger at her husband.
Nothing innocent about this man...he led a life of crime, including murdering his cell mate while in prison. Justice has been served.
That’s because allah is actually satan in disguise.
My thoughts exactly.
That just goes to show how out of touch with reality the left truly is.
It should have been served a long time ago.
Kind of an odd phrase.
That superfluous phrase was deliberately inserted into the article in order to "roil the waters," awaken needless doubts, and inspire fretting among low-info bleeding hearts.
Did you know that Oswald's DNA was also never found on the bullets which killed JFK? Neither did the bullets bear any recoverable fingerprints! But the real "clincher?" Wait for it: The gun shop receipt for the bullets was never found! Guess that means that Oswald must have been innocent, ri-ight?
Does that mean there was no DNA evidence or that DNA did not match the convicted?
There was definitely DNA evidence: The victim's DNA, the victim's husband's DNA (Gayle's husband had kissed her that morning, before she left for work), the victim's dog's DNA, etc. So what?
Regards,
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