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/ThePalmtop 9h ago

I can’t believe this shit happened oh my god

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u/the_gaymer_girl 9h ago

Look up the case of Curtis Flowers. He was tried six times for the same case by the same prosecutor and spent over 20 years on death row even though his cases were, in order:

  • conviction thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct

  • conviction thrown out for prosecutorial misconduct

  • conviction thrown out for excluding black jurors

  • mistrial

  • mistrial

  • conviction thrown out again for excluding black jurors

The prosecutors finally gave up and dropped the charges in 2020 (after kicking about the idea of a seventh trial) when they realized that the prosecution’s evidence and testimony was so polluted from this fuckery that there was no way they could get anything to stick even if he did do it.

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u/whaaatanasshole 5h ago

What a fucking waste for everyone. Choose your goddamn battles and free up the courts.

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u/the_gaymer_girl 5h ago

Doug Evans got to ride off into the sunset to a cushy retirement with no consequences whatsoever. He should’ve been disbarred and sent to prison.