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    Missouri richtet Marcellus Williams hin, obwohl die Staatsanwaltschaft versucht, das Urteil aufzuheben


    Missouri richtet Marcellus Williams hin, obwohl die Staatsanwaltschaft versucht, das Urteil aufzuheben

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams

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    1. WhyCantIStopReddit on

      >But no forensic evidence linked Williams to the murder weapon or crime scene, and as local prosecutors have renounced his conviction, the victim’s family and several trial jurors also said they opposed his execution.

      This is so unbelievably fucked up.

    4. notcaffeinefree on

      Man, they wasted no time in carrying that out after SCOTUS denied the stay request.

    6. PigeonMelk on

      Even the prosecutors office came out in defense of Williams. That is extremely out of the norm unless there was an egregious error. Everyone involved with the situation (aside from Governor Parson and the Supreme Court) was on Williams’ after new evidence arose proving his innocence. This is a symptom of a bigger problem with our justice system.

      Edit: I misspoke. I said “broken” justice system. The system is not broken, it is working exactly as intended. We need systemic change.

    7. sailorbrendan on

      It’s important in these moments to really sit with the ramifications.

      The state isn’t just an external thing. It is a proxy. The state kills on behalf of the people. That’s the entire framework that underpins the system.

      We killed him. Many of us didn’t want to. Many of us tried to plea on his behalf. Many of us voted against the people who ended up doing this.

      But it’s still us. It is still the system that ostensibly represents us murdering someone on our behalf.

      Which is why it’s so important that we make the system better. We owe a moral debt for this.

    9. WedgeGameSucks on

      These are the reasons why I don’t live in a red state. Fuck that

    10. NorseYeti on

      SCOTUS just murdered an innocent man. They should have their positions dissolved.

    11. broden89 on

      I have always been opposed to the death penalty, and this is one of the clearest reasons why.

    12. john_the_quain on

      I remember hearing phrases like “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” and really thought Serious People generally agreed with it. This is gross and heartbreaking.

    13. SimTheWorld on

      The State would rather kill an innocent man than admit the system is flawed…

    15. zatchstar on

      Fuck EVERYONE involved in not allowing this appeal to be heard.

      Every single one of them is accessory to state funded murder of an innocent.

    17. crowislanddive on

      This is why the death penalty should be illegal. The government, under no circumstances should be putting its citizens to death for any reason.

    18. energizernutter on

      This is the third one recently. It makes me think Conservatives in power like killing innocent people

    22. Carsharr on

      Call it as it is. Mike Parson is a murderer. Faced with overwhelming evidence of a man’s innocence, and pressure from nearly everyone involved to free the man, Parson willfully disbanded the panel looking into the conviction in favor of putting a likely innocent man to death. This is state sponsored murder. This is a complete and total miscarriage of justice.

    23. spencerdiniz on

      Yeah… Strange that people are “pro-life” when it comes to abortion, but no so much when it’s about the death penalty.

    24. Weeblifter on

      This is your reminder that the governor of Missouri gave a pardon to Andy Reid’s son who had a DUI and which had a child in a coma for 11 days.

    25. The-Curiosity-Rover on

      Governor Mike Parson can go to hell. He murdered a man today just so he could appear “tough on crime”.

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