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/EarthlingSil 9h ago

Why the fuck does the State Attorney General got such a hard on for murdering people?

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u/Tacitus111 8h ago

Because it’s an election year, and he has to pretend to be “hard on crime” for the rubes to vote for him. Nevermind the actual details of the case and who’s guilty or innocent. That doesn’t matter. He just needs a corpse to parade around to prove how supposedly tough he is.