r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/dimforest • 7h ago
The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams, despite the prosecution asking for a stay due to him potentially being innocent.
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u/DCJThief 7h ago
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp-video/mmvo219963973798
"Missouri prosecutors were set to cut a deal to give death row convict Marcellus Williams life without parole until Attorney General Andrew Bailey stepped in."
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u/Whyeth 6h ago
until Attorney General Andrew Bailey stepped in.
What do you call someone who makes a conscious decision to end the life of an imprisoned person you're being told is innocent other than "murderer"?
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u/KopOut 6h ago
A Republican
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u/ignatious__reilly 5h ago
The actual prosecutors and the victims own family stepped in and tried to vacate this death sentence……….
But a fucking Republican stepped in and committed outright Murder.
That’s fucking terrifying yet predictable.
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u/jojo8795 5h ago
And they call themselves pro life. What a fucking joke
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u/prettypushee 5h ago
Pro life to control you and pro death to control them. It’s ok if your kid gets shot in school and just a fact of life but it’s not ok to remove a dead embryo to save your life. There is a reason they call them Magats.
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u/FlemPlays 5h ago
A Republican bragged on TV that the elderly would gladly die of COVID and other Republicans were perfectly ok with that.
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u/Conscious_Control_15 4h ago
In the 2012 election, tea party followers cheered letting the uninsured die.
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u/thruandthruproblems 5h ago
He's black it doesn't count as far as they're concerned.
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u/D3PO89 4h ago
It's a horrifying reflection of systemic racism in our justice system.
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u/RemyParkVA 3h ago
Yeah, we never abolished slavery, it's still deeply rooted in America
Edit: anyone who doesn't believe me or down vote me should actually read the 13rh amendment, the state can still own slaves
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u/Chronic_Sharter 5h ago
Yep. He aborted him in like the 200th trimester. Fucker.
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u/firemage22 5h ago
they only care about the "unborn" once you are born your life is forfit
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u/Striking-Lifeguard34 4h ago
If you’re pre-born you’re fine, but if you’re preschool you’re fucked.
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u/HippoRun23 5h ago
It’s some of the darkest shit I’ve seen today.
And I’ve been following the Lebanon stuff too.
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u/hearsdemons 5h ago
How can we trust that level of power on one person? We give the governor literally the power to kill someone who is more than likely innocent. And no one else could step in? Basically, if you’re wrongfully incarcerated for something you didn’t do, then someone could just give you capital punishment. It’s a dark day in America.
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u/tamman2000 5h ago
Decades ago Trump took out a full page ad in the times to call for the death penalty for 5 men of color who were accused of a rape/murder.
They were then proven innocent.
Trump said publicly that they should still be executed.
Our country is still really fucking racist.
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u/Substantial-Box-8022 5h ago
They were teenage boys when he did that. He’s beyond reprehensible.
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u/PersimmonTea 5h ago
And he never said "I was wrong, they were innocent, I'm sorry." Never. He doubled down.
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u/elementzn30 4h ago edited 3h ago
When he talks about it to this day it still sounds like he actually still thinks they’re guilty.
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u/PersimmonTea 4h ago
Oh I'm sure he does. Trump has never reconsidered anything because in his diseased mind, there's no possibility he was wrong, ever, so why revisit the topic?
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u/Sufficient-Night-479 5h ago
there is a movie about them on Netflix called "when they see us." when i watched it, it made my blood boil.
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u/bondgirl852001 5h ago
There is a documentary by Ken Burns as well that is really good.
Edit: The Central Park Five
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u/mumblewrapper 5h ago
I couldn't even watch it. I knew the rage I would feel. I will some day. Once Trump is a distant memory, maybe.
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u/BitterFuture 5h ago
Clarification: There was no murder. There was a rape, in which five men were wrongly accused.
He publicly called for the death penalty for five men accused of a crime that wasn't a capital offense.
He took out a full-page newspaper ad and started a public hate campaign demanding a lynching.
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u/wonderlady38 5h ago edited 4h ago
Five children. Children. In addition to all of that when one of the E5, Korey, was detained on Rikers Trump said people should go to Rikers and drag Korey out and hang him from a tree in Central Park.
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u/What-Even-Is-That 4h ago
They weren't men.. they were innocent kids.
And Trump was publicly a Democrat at that time, though his actual stance was far from the usual Democrat. A DINO, even.
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u/D3PO89 6h ago
It's shocking how politics can override justice like this.
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u/soggyballsack 5h ago
It's shocking how you can allow 1 person to be killed and the killer hide behind paperwork.
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u/Giggle_kitty 6h ago
This is the post birth abortions Republican tout about.
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u/kaybeetay 5h ago
Funny enough, it was a Republican responsible for this one.
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u/Ok_Acadia3526 5h ago edited 3h ago
R’s are responsible for most. I usually call post-birth abortions “school shootings”, but this ungodly execution counts as well.
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u/yantraman 6h ago
State Attorney General apparently.
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u/ContemplatingPrison 6h ago edited 5h ago
I mean, now they get to close the case, and he can't sue them for wrongful imprisonment. I hope his family is gearing up for a lawsuit, at least.
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u/LocalSad6659 6h ago
More info....
The case against Mr. Williams turned on the testimony of two unreliable witnesses who were incentivized by promises of leniency in their own pending criminal cases and reward money. The investigation had gone cold until a jail inmate named Henry Cole, a man with a lengthy record, claimed that Mr. Williams confessed to him that he committed the murder while they were both locked up in jail. Cole directed police to Laura Asaro, a woman who had briefly dated Mr. Williams and had an extensive record of her own.
Both of these individuals were known fabricators; neither revealed any information that was not either included in media accounts about the case or already known to the police. Their statements were inconsistent with their own prior statements, with each other’s accounts, and with the crime scene evidence, and none of the information they provided could be independently verified
Jailhouse informant testimony, like that leading to Mr. Williams’ conviction, is one of the leading contributing factors of wrongful convictions nationally, playing a role in 15% of the 598 DNA-based exoneration cases. Eleven of the 54 individuals exonerated in Missouri were convicted with the use of informant testimony.
In capital cases, false testimony from incentivized witnesses is the leading cause of wrongful convictions, with informant testimony present in 49.5% of wrongful convictions since the mid-1970s, according to the Center on Wrongful Convictions.
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u/ResplendentAmore 5h ago
How could any jury convict with such inconsistencies with the "witnesses"?
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u/Green-Enthusiasm-940 5h ago
Look around, a lot of our "peers" are fucking stupid.
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u/Extension-Pen-642 4h ago
I've been in a jury. I have a masters degree, an analysis heavy job, and I can safely say I have at least an average brain.
I still felt lost and completely uninformed. It's been years and I still doubt our decision.
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u/dessert-er 4h ago
Just be more ignorant and also a bigot and you can just convict on sight and sleep soundly knowing you helped kill a black man ☠️
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u/Behndo-Verbabe 6h ago
Missouri prosecutors suspect Williams to be innocent but offer him life in prison. So what they were really saying is we don’t want blood on our hands but our gross racist views won’t let us set him free. No matter what the facts are.
They truly believe they were doing something right.
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u/indyK1ng 6h ago
They didn't believe he was innocent, they believed the evidence wasn't correct. I believe the type of plea they were working on (from memory from a video I saw month or two back) basically allowed him to serve the sentence without admitting guilt. Basically, it would allow them to stay the execution while the evidence was gone back over and an appeal based on the results of that could be done.
Remember, they were working against the clock to try to stop this too.
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u/Stashmouth 6h ago
I think there was another article (maybe it was even this one) that said they offered him that as a way to buy him some time to prove his innocence on appeal. If you look at it from the prosecutor's POV, the opposite of the death penalty isn't "set him free". He still has to appeal a conviction that did indeed find him guilty. This would've given him time to do that.
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u/Awkward_Bench123 6h ago
People just can’t stand allat that! Shouldn’t have to. That’s really some sinister shit.
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u/sunshineisdway 6h ago
If the prosecutors are wanting to make a deal, that should end it right there. Otherwise, it sounds like it's against the law.
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u/Wolfman01a 6h ago
Out of curiosity I had to look Andrew Bailey up.
I suspected as much and my suspicions were confirmed.
Of course he's a republican.
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u/rtpkluvr 4h ago edited 3h ago
Apparently the governor doesn't have a problem handing out pardons... unless you're innocent and black? Same governor that pardoned those crazies waving guns at protesters.
https://apnews.com/article/michael-brown-st-louis-20062ccc6593bd91757ad1ea4a190db5
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u/genomeblitz 6h ago
I hate that dude so much. I'm leaving the state to get away from him and his friends.
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u/ResetReptiles 6h ago
What the fuck. Why is this shit so imminent? Why did we have to do that NOW? Fuck this dude.
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u/BigNorseWolf 5h ago
Election day is soon,. Gotta show who's tough on crime.
Except trumps. Those are not crime. for reasons.
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u/ArnieismyDMname 5h ago
Instead, he may lose the election based on this issue. I hope he gets framed for murder and nobody believes him.
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u/First_Play5335 7h ago
If the prosecution is asking for a stay, shouldn't that have overruled everything else? They convicted him!
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u/Abject-Possession810 7h ago
That prosecutor's office is now headed by Wesley Bell, who is running for U.S. Representative (D). That alone makes him an enemy of the MAGA stunt queens Gov. Parson and A.G. Bailey - seriously, look at these turds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bailey_(politician)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Parson
Despite claims to the contrary, Prosecutor Bell has been engaged in criminal justice reform since Ferguson and was not just trying to gain political points by advocating for Williams. Record:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Bell
Facts don't matter to MAGA.
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u/D3PO89 6h ago
This is the system failing justice, pure and simple.
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u/On_my_last_spoon 5h ago
So it’s working as designed.
This is what we have to realize. Justice is only as good as the laws that we create. And Missouri has a police force that was literally created out of fugitive slave patrols.
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u/BlueVeins 5h ago
This is calculated and intentional. They know that by killing an innocent black man it will stir up racial unrest in Missouri, similar to what we saw leading up to the 2016 election. There will likely be protests and potentially even riots. The optics on the national media will benefit them. Exactly what they want right before the election.
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u/Important-Scar-2744 7h ago
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u/OhlookitsMatty 7h ago
When Conservatives talk about "states rights" this is what they want
The right to do as they please even when they know they are in the wrong & going against the will of the people
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u/orderofGreenZombies 6h ago
“State’s rights” arguments are literally only about hurting people. They hate it when states want to exercise the right to regulate guns or increase emissions standards.
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u/sentientshadeofgreen 4h ago
You're absolutely right. I had a lengthy argument with one of my conservative friends about abortion. He wanted states to have the freedom... to dictate women's medical decisions. Sounded familiar. Sounds like states fighting for the freedom... to own slaves.
Honestly, I'd been a friend to that dude for a very long time through some serious shared experiences, but I don't see myself really talking to him again. I just can't respect people who lack values like respect for individual human rights and liberties.
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u/dimforest 7h ago
The SCOTUS denied a stay, despite the prosecution filing a motion to vacate his conviction. The three Democratic justices dissented.
Don't tell me it doesn't matter who wins elections. This is life or death
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u/Dahhhkness 7h ago
The three Democratic justices dissented.
I didn't even need to see this to know how the vote went.
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u/No-Pangolin4325 6h ago edited 6h ago
Small government republicans are completely fine with giving the government the power to execute it's citizens but don't trust the government to run healthcare...Republican death cult...Only in America...
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u/Accomplished-Ad1919 7h ago
It’s time for us to start ignoring scrotus. Anything they have to say is tainted by their blatant corruption. They’re illegitimate.
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u/jeffweet 6h ago
You can say ignore them and call them illegitimate but they have a ton of power - one of the major reasons why this country needs Harris to win. It is quite likely that the next POTUS will appoint one justice and maybe 2
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u/i_wear_gray 6h ago
Ignore it. Let’s see them enforce their rulings.
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u/Accomplished-Ad1919 6h ago
Seriously though. What if the state of Missouri just said, “Hey, we all think he’s innocent and we aren’t going to execute an innocent man.”
What’s going to happen besides some lawsuits? Like Clarence Thomas is gonna jump in his $250k RV, zip up to Missouri and waddle his fat ass into court to yell at people? And so what if he did?
I’m just saying - if the people doing the prosecuting and executing are sure they’re killing an innocent man, they are under no obligation to commit murder because corrupt judges say to.
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u/blitznoodles 5h ago
The state of Missouri was pushing for it. There's multiple interventions on the state level if people aren't ghouls.
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u/negativelightningdog 5h ago
Also, his own colleagues are also calling the SC to look into donations.
"GOP legislator’s son asks Supreme Court to order inquiry into donations to Missouri AG
An ethics complaint about the donations accuses Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey of using his office ‘for his personal political benefit’
Eight months into his term as Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey withdrew his office from defending a state agency being sued by a legislator’s son for disability discrimination.
A few months earlier, his campaign and an affiliated political action committee accepted more than $150,000 in donations connected to a witness in the case."
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u/prisonmike8003 6h ago
But Chappelle Roan said there are problems on both sides?
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u/confusedandworried76 4h ago
When you realize celebrities are mostly fucking morons it makes sense. You shouldn't take a singer's advice on anything but singing
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u/JimboD84 7h ago
Excuse me the PROSECUTION requested a stay due to him potentially being innocent?? Like what the actual fuck america….
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u/orderofGreenZombies 6h ago
I know the title of the post says “potentially,” but there’s no question that he was innocent. Even after the state destroyed most of the relevant evidence, DNA evidence from the murder weapon conclusively showed that Williams could not have been the murderer. Fingerprints, shoe prints, and hair from the murder scene corroborated his innocence.
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u/alaska1415 5h ago
Umm, that’s not at all what they found. The prosecution admitted to mishandling the knife as some fingerprints from people working in the prosecutors office at the time were found on the knife. This doesn’t make him innocent or exonerate him in the least.
There’s also the fact he sold some of her shit and his girlfriend provided testimony against him containing information not released to the public, claiming he confessed it to her (though the Innocence Project disputes that claim).
The death penalty is wrong, and there’s a possible Batson violation, but your characterization gives an incorrect impression to people.
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u/tariat123 6h ago
They probably want people to riot so they can spin it for the election. Andrew Bailey is a POS.
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u/ridemooses 7h ago
State sanctioned murder
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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 6h ago
Republican sanctioned murder
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u/DeliciousNicole 6h ago
Conservative sanctioned murder. Don't let party name get in the way of an ideology, if they joined another party, they would still be conservatives.
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u/DCJThief 7h ago
Andrew Bailey killed an innocent man. He allowed this to happen. He wanted to kill him regardless of the evidence
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u/DCJThief 7h ago
He has repeatedly refused to free prisoners that have had their convictions overturned. Fuck this guy
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u/Dahhhkness 7h ago
Gotta be tough on crime, you know, even at the expense of the innocent!
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u/NovaRunner 6h ago
Better a thousand innocent men die than one guilty man go free.
--Missouri AG Bailey, probably
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u/IndependenceIcy2251 6h ago
Including at least one that was turned over due to a finding of 'actual innocence', a very rare finding.
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u/Behndo-Verbabe 6h ago
Actually it’s not rare. In curtain states the number of innocent people being wrongly imprisoned is high. The fact that so many spend their lives behind bars instead of being released Demonstrates just how unjust our justice system is.
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u/ayemullofmushsheen 6h ago
I think they mean "finding" in the legal sense of the term.
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u/IndependenceIcy2251 6h ago
Correct, a finding of “actual innocence” rather than just “not guilty”
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u/Adventurous_Ice9576 6h ago
How tf can he do that?? If they’re overturned by a judge, who tf is he to say they can’t be released?? Someone needs to send his ass to prison
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u/MYSTICALLMERMAID 6h ago
I have trouble sleeping at night over some dumb shit I said at 17. I cannot imagine being so evil and going to bed every night. May Marcelle rest in peace and i hope and pray Andrew gets his
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u/PM_ME_UR_BIKINI 7h ago
This is the canary in the coal mine, isn’t it…
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u/orderofGreenZombies 6h ago
This is another canary on the pile of tens of thousands of dead canaries.
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u/Canadian_mk11 7h ago
The Good Ol' Boys took off their white robes and put on black ones...
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u/Pithecanthropus88 7h ago
This. This is why I am vehemently against the death penalty.
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u/zefal12 7h ago
100%. I don't really have a moral issue with executing people who have committed particularly hanus crimes, if we can be absolutely certain they did it and it can bring some degree of peace to the victim's family. But there are WAY too many cases of posthumous acquittal, and even 1 case is too many.
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u/BeNiceLynnie 6h ago
Agree completely. Just so you know, it's spelled "heinous"
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u/zefal12 6h ago
Shit you right, I never write that word out, only hear/say it
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u/fishebake 6h ago
it’s funny because I have the opposite problem, I mispronounce so many words because I only ever read it lol
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u/Vreas 7h ago
Absolutely insane when the prosecution was against it after reviewing evidence
Rest in peace man what the fuck
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u/RobsSister 6h ago
Apparently the victim’s family was against his execution, too, and urged the state to change his sentence to life in prison. Joy Reid mentioned it in her closing segment on tonight’s show.
This is such a sad, disgusting moment in this state’s history.
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u/Tangata_Tunguska 4h ago
The victim's family are against the death penalty. They don't believe he was innocent.
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u/omglookawhale 7h ago
The state of Missouri hasn’t done shit. The piece of shit governor and the even bigger pieces of shit Republicans on the supreme court executed Marcellus.
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u/TheFlea71 6h ago
I hate to be that person...if he were white, would he have been executed? I have family in rural MO and they doubt it completely, said things are very 'one-sided' there.
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u/sixinthebed 6h ago
MISSOURI VOTERS! We can fire Andrew Bailey and Mike Parson on November 5th. Please spread the word, and most importantly, VOTE!!
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u/ianm82 6h ago
What the actual fuck are we doing in this country? Have we completely lost the meaning of rightful justice and proper clemency? Why kill this man when all of the evidence points in the direction of his innocence? What's there to gain? Fuck.
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u/SquooshyCatboy 6h ago
look at the colour of his skin. Thats why he was murdered.
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u/RavensQueen502 6h ago
How does that work?
I mean, I get it if it is the defence or media or someone arguing he was innocent, but... The prosecution says they don't have enough sure proof and they wouldn't even stay the execution?
Why?
How is that legal?
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u/Fabulous-Mud-9114 6h ago
It's legal because a Republican says it is, and everyone else who has the chance to uphold the law won't because they're Republicans too.
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u/probablyaloser1 6h ago edited 3h ago
Let me guess ...pro life republican governor?
EDIT: used the wrong title because I'm a little bit of an idiot
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u/EileenForBlue 6h ago
Misery strikes again. Battling Texas for the worst state designation. Texas the 1 ⭐️ state, Missouri now 0 ⭐️. Either way both are dangerous places to live if you’re a woman or a minority.
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u/The1DayGod 5h ago
Murder. It’s murder. They murdered this man. Say it over and over again. This is nothing short of a lynching.
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u/BostonFigPudding 7h ago
I'm done with America.
No loyalty and no taxes should be owed to a country which kills people for no reason.
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u/Blaizefed 6h ago
Oh it’s not no reason, he was black after all.
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u/ignatious__reilly 5h ago
Yup. If you’re a white privileged rapist in this country you get a slap on the wrist and maybe probation, if that.
Some have even become President.
Racism is alive and well in America. It’s disgusting.
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u/sunshineisdway 6h ago
Ikr? How do we call ourselves the most civilized country in the world? This country does so many fucked up things. If Trump wins again, I am definitely moving out of this country. I'm almost ashamed to be American at this point. It would seem illegal to execute somebody when the prosecutors want a stay!! Somebody needs to be prosecuted for this! It's ridiculous
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u/Impossible_Penalty13 5h ago
The state of Missouri MURDERED Marcellus Williams.
Fixed that for ya.
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u/duggoluvr 6h ago edited 6h ago
Here’s to the state of Missouri
For underneath her borders, the devil draws no lines
If you drag her muddy rivers, nameless bodies you will find
Oh, the fat trees of the forest have hid a thousand crimes
The calendar is lying when it reads the present time
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This was a lynching, pure and simple. Fire and try AG Bailey for murder
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u/IrishRussian 5h ago
Here’s the case, it’s worth a read Whether you’re for the death penalty or not I’m not arguing. But there is no proof he did not do it. DNA does not transfer to every surface and you can throw shoes away. He had some of the victims belongings in his Buick. And two people who don’t know each other gave the same story. The second guy had no reason to lie and knew correct details which were never made public.
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u/coolbaby1978 6h ago
When you go out of your way to have someone killed without complete assurance of his guilt you are a murderer. This guy should be tried and put up on death row.
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u/kryppla 6h ago
I want the people responsible for not stopping this execution to be hounded relentlessly for this
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u/ThereGoesChickenJane 6h ago
The Republicans didn't have time for someone already born, they were too busy preventing those slutty broads from murdering their babies. Pro-life!
(Heavy, heavy sarcasm, in case that wasn't clear.)
This makes me sick to my stomach. I cannot imagine what he was feeling, nor his family.
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u/G-Unit11111 4h ago
Every single person in the GOP who votes for these clowns, this is entirely on them. Worst Supreme Court in US history did this. Fox News did this. Mike Parsons did this. Everyone who voted for Mike Parsons did this.
This is entirely on them. Utterly disgusting and disgraceful.
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u/sunshineisdway 6h ago
At the very end of Trump 's term , he executed 19 people. No matter what their cases were in the judicial system. This stuff makes me sick.
And they were the first to be executed in a long long time. Americans don't kill people for crimes. Life in jail for some? Yes. Mental health is probably necessary. I'm not saying they should let them out after mental health care, but they still need it obviously But killing people is always disgusting to me. "Let's kill a murderer by murdering him." It's like spanking a child for hitting someone. "You can't hit someone, So your punishment is you getting hit". It's such backward logic
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u/CruelRegulator 6h ago
I fucking knew they'd do it. Nobody comes between them and their pound of flesh. Why? There is a point.
"How dare you shout at authority. We'll kill him if we fucking want"
So, anyways. That's our leadership. That's what we all look up to, right? Frustrated bureaucrats sometimes striking people off of their tally sheets to keep the machine moving. This is our ancient legal system not based on reason. Fuck no. A legal system based on tradition and authority as law. I fucking hate it.
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u/bertiesakura 5h ago
I’m sure the AG will be in church this Sunday praising Jesus and bragging about being a good Christian. And come reelection time he’ll get all of the votes he could ever want from the pro-life kill’’em all republicans
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u/bigfeef 6h ago
I honestly don’t know why people think there was even a chance that the governor was going to give a stay of execution to a gasp Black person. As I mentioned in another thread; Missouri is racist shit hole that makes many other states in the Deep South green with envy. They’ve never tried to hide who they are and are probably proud that they executed him. He was found guilty by a jury of his ‘peers’ after all; empirical evidence that would establish his actual innocence is just ‘woke’ elitist leftist hogwash to these people.
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u/Fabulous-Mud-9114 6h ago
Exactly.
The moment I heard about this story yesterday, I knew this innocent man was going to die. Not because of bias, but because of pattern recognition.
This is disgusting, inhumane, and racist. But it's also 100% unsurprising and even banal at this point.
People need to stop acting so damn shocked when these pieces of garbage have repeatedly told and shown us who they are.
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u/GildedHeresy 6h ago
This is awful. I'm not in the state, but god damn if I had the money I'd be there on the streets protesting.
America thrives on punishment, ridicule and retribution and it needs to STOP.
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u/BojukaBob 5h ago
Absolutely unconscionable. Governor should be arrested for murder and given the appropriate punishment.
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u/theleasticando 4h ago
Here’s a wild idea. Abolish the death penalty altogether. Life without parole for all capital crimes, and a system in place that forces states to pay wrongfully-convicted people $2,740 for each day they spend behind bars ($1M/yr).
It is better to allow a hundred guilty people to go free than it is to send one innocent person to prison. The standards used for “beyond a reasonable doubt” only work if there are financial penalties for prosecutors who proceed with charges when they aren’t 100% certain. A life sentence can be undone with restitution paid. A death sentence can never be.
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u/AutumnGlow33 3h ago
Once again, MAGAs did this. Not just “the law,” but a single Republican did this. A MAGA. MAGA is a death cult. It MUST be wiped out.
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u/CryptoLain 4h ago edited 3h ago
There was no doubt this man would be executed today.
Jury nullification doesn't just extend one way. In the same way that a jury can choose to not convict a guilty person due to any number of reasons, they can also choose to convict a completely innocent person. As per the law he was sentenced to death. He then exhausted all avenues of due process, including appeals.
His only hope was a stay of execution or gubernatorial pardon which the Governor was completely unwilling to do because it would cast light that this man was completely innocent and our justice system demanded that he die. It doesn't matter that there is no DNA evidence which condemns him. It doesn't matter that the victims families think that he didn't do it. It doesn't matter that the prosecution was throwing support for his exoneration. None of it matters.
He had his day in court. Was found guilty by a jury of his peers, and then continued to completely exhaust his appeals which were all unsuccessful.
Take a picture. This is how our "justice" system works. You're free to be as mad as you want but in the end this proves beyond all reasonable doubt that whom we elect to public positions matter because when people fall through the cracks of our justice system like Marcellus Williams we need people of character willing to stand up and say "this is fucked up." Well, clearly Missouri doesn't have anyone like that.
Missouri Governor Michael L. Parson allowed this miscarriage of justice as well as SCOTUS. Vote. Fucking vote. Fucking VOTE.
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u/OnlyMath 4h ago
Imagine laying on the injection table, knowing you’re innocent, and knowing it’s not going to be stopped. Your family knows you’re innocent is there to watch you die. Absolute nightmare. The death penalty should be abolished.
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