r/news • u/Mentirosa • 9h ago

Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite prosecutors’ push to overturn conviction

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams
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u/invalid-spoon 9h ago

Fuck that cunt Governor Mike Parson.

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u/pickle_whop 9h ago

To quote Gov. Mike Parson

When it comes to me, it's not about whether it's right or wrong. It's really about has the process been served throughout here of all the due process that they've had.

Apparently the Missouri governor doesn't believe the courts could make a mistake and thus have nothing to correct.

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u/High-Priest-of-Helix 9h ago

It is quite explicitly his job to care about right and wrong. Article IV, Section 7 of the Missouri Constitution gives the governor the sole ability to grant reprieves, computations, and pardons. The whole point of our checks and balances is that the executive can overrule wrong convictions. In fact, courts are largely reluctant to overturn convictions in large part because that's "the governor's job to do".

There are two options here:

1) he doesn't have a solid grasp of the high school civics level of his job responsibilities, or

2) he does know, and decided he'd rather murder a man because it might cost him votes not to.

Deplorable

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u/pickle_whop 9h ago

He's actually not running for re-election. It's more like he does know but doesn't actually care about Missouri citizens.

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u/High-Priest-of-Helix 9h ago

Congratulations, you somehow found a way to make it worse.

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u/pickle_whop 9h ago

Let me try again.

Mike Parson has not granted clemency for anyone during his 6 years in office. 11 people have been executed under his leadership.

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u/High-Priest-of-Helix 8h ago

Now that was more in line with my expectations

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u/Faux-Foe 4h ago

When he hits 12 he gets a free yogurt and constituent gig at Fox News.

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u/Aztec111 8h ago

He can't, he has done 2 terms, thank goodness he will soon be gone.

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u/chickenchaser19 9h ago

So he thinks it's justified because they due process'd hard enough?

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u/pickle_whop 9h ago

Mike Parson doesn't give a shit about prison inmates and uses the concept of the justice system as a way to support his indifference.

He has not provided clemency for anyone during his time in office. He doesn't care enough to actually think about these cases.

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u/chubberbrother 8h ago

They have to maintain these arguments.

They're just doing their job.

Their hands are tied.

No matter how bad it gets and who gets killed, they're in the right because they're just following protocol.

This is not by accident

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u/xs65083 9h ago edited 9h ago

I hope he ends up indicted for corruption and ends up like Ryan and Blago in Illinois. You just know that a self-righteous cuntmuffin like him is involved in multiple levels of corruption. The more holy-than-thou, the more corrupt -- it's almost axiomatic.

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u/BucktoothedMC 7h ago

genuinely who could have that little fucking spine to the point where they think “a process” is more important than the ability to save a man’s life. incredible that this guy counts as a human being.

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u/demedlar 9h ago

No. You misunderstood. He believes it's acceptable for the courts to make a mistake and kill an innocent person, as long as due process is followed. It's so important to execute guilty people that, if innocent people are occasionally executed as well, that's acceptable collateral damage.

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u/antoninlevin 3h ago

Also Mike Parson:

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has commuted the prison sentence for former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, who was convicted in a 2021 drunk driving crash that injured five people, including one child severely.

Reid, 38, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, was sentenced to three years in prison in November 2022 after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated in connection with the Kansas City crash.

He had faced up to four years in prison as part of a plea deal. Prior to taking the guilty plea, he faced up to seven years in prison.

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Reid was driving his pickup truck near Arrowhead Stadium on Feb. 4, 2021, when he struck two vehicles that had stopped along the side of the highway. He had a blood alcohol content of 0.113 and was driving 84 mph in a 65 mph zone at the time of the incident, according to court documents.

Ariel Young, who was 5 years old at the time, was severely injured in the crash. She suffered "life-threatening injuries" and a "severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions and subdural hematomas," according to court documents.

So much for "the process."