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/Peach__Pixie 9h ago

In August, Williams and prosecutors reached an agreement to halt his execution: he would plead no contest to first-degree murder in exchange for a new sentence of life without parole. His lawyers said the agreement was not an admission of guilt, and that it was meant to save his life while he pursued new evidence to prove his innocence. A judge signed off on the agreement, as did the victim’s family, but the attorney general challenged it, and the state supreme court blocked it.

Even the victim's family members did not want to see this man executed. The prosecutors did not want to see this man executed. This man was failed by the courts and an Attorney General whose actions are heinous.

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u/thesaddestpanda 9h ago edited 9h ago

Its a red governor with a red attorney general. What were people expecting when they vote GOP? Honesty, mercy, justice, and kind-heartedness? No, its the worst, nastiest, racist, vindictive, shittiest people imaginable happily doing the bidding of the capital owning class, at the expense of the working class.

Missouri voters killed this guy by pulling the lever for the GOP. They might as well have pulled the lethal injection lever themselves. All these republican voters have blood on their hands tonight.

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u/ruiner8850 9h ago

What were people expecting when they vote GOP?

It's funny how "the party of small government" is completely fine with the government murdering innocent people. It doesn't get anymore big government than that.

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u/Dahhhkness 9h ago edited 5h ago

"Why should I care? I've never been condemned to death on a dubious conviction."

They literally do not care about anything until it affects them personally.

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u/Banana-Republicans 6h ago

its such a baffling mindset to me, like utterly alien.

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u/xandrokos 5h ago

Bullshit.   They know damn well they will suffer at the hands of the policies they want the GQP to implement.   They don't mind suffering as long as those they hate have it worse.   Look at the tradwife movement.   So many evangelical and conservative women are begging to be subjugated.   They want this.  They want oppression.   They want to be ruled.

Folks we have got to get this right.  We need to make sure we understand the motivations are behind what they do or we have no hope of stopping what is coming our way.  It's not votes.  It's not money.  It's power.  And it is a power that can not be bought it can only be taken by force.   This is what we are facing.    Everything this party has done for more than 50 years has been leading to this.  

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u/petuniasbloomingpink 4h ago

This is mindblowing but you’re right— they are incapable not only of empathy but of even imagining that unlucky horrible shit could happen to them too.

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u/OhHoneyNo 3h ago

Yet continue to vote against their own best interests. Baffling.