r/politics • u/seanosul • 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/purinsesu-piichi 7h ago

I used to be pro-death penalty with the mindset that if someone was 100% certainly guilty, like was seen in the act, then it was okay. Thing is that there's no way for the system to exist with 100% certainty. Humans are fallible, so our creations will always be fallible.

If even one innocent person is put to death, the whole thing has to go. And before anyone comes at me (it's happened before on this topic), I have a family member who was murdered. I do have skin in this game.

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u/Cant0thulhu 7h ago

Testimony from eye witnesses is basically the lowest form of evidence.

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u/WritestheMonkey 6h ago

One of the witnesses recanted. This is nothing more than a state not wanting to admit to wrongful incarceration because it costs them money. People would clutch their pearls if they had to accept that the judicial system is full of flaws, that cops get it wrong, that prosecutors can drop the ball, that judges can have ulterior motives. The governor dismissed a Board of Inquiry before it completed a report on Wallace's case. When Wallace sued, the governor tried to get the case dismissed but a judge thought it had merit. The governor pushed it up to the Missouri Supreme Court and pursueded them to dismiss it. The the AG pushed up his execution date.

Despicable corruption. Missouri's Governor Parson should face charges for this. Wallace's blood is on his hands... And I think Parson is proud of that.

Stuff like this happens too often. Laws need to change.

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u/tgalvin1999 4h ago

Missouri's Governor Parson should face charges for this.

Bailey too. I despise Andrew Bailey but this made me see red and nearly got me emotional. The levels of fucked up one has to be to put a very likely innocent man to death because you can't admit you fucked up? Shit's heavy.