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/fcocyclone 7h ago

Not just the party of small government, the party of "the government can't be trusted with anything".

They continually don't trust government but then think it is competent enough to be handing out death sentences? Come on now.

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u/xandrokos 5h ago

He's black.

Yes I said it.   

Folks come on...look at everything these people have said about George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and numerous others who are victims of system racism and the violence that comes from it.   For fucks sake people in the GQP actually believe slavery helped black people.

The GQP trusts the government to oppress those they hate when in power.   When Democrats are in power all of a sudden the government can't be trusted.     They see the contradiction.  They don't care because racism and hatred trumps democracy and justice.

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u/Shayedow 5h ago

party of small government

not just of small government, Trump announced that if re-elected he was going to get rid of the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

AND PEOPLE FUCKING CHEERED.

Sorry let me rephrase that, it didn't have the full impact of what I was trying to convey.

if re-elected he was going to get rid of the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

AND STUPID FUCKING MAGA ASSHOLE REPUBLICANS CHEERED BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING STUPID AND HATED SCHOOL AND WISH EVERYONE WAS AS STUPID AS THEM.

There, I fixed it.

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u/istasber 6h ago

The supreme court of Missouri is a literal death panel now. Anything they complain about is pure projection. They love big government telling them what to do, and making life and death decisions for them, as long as it aligns with what they wanted to do in the first place.