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Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence

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Re: Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence

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Still not sure with so many of the (esp right leaning) in the US claiming to be christian, can also accept this as a punishment. But I get nonsense begets more nonsense.

Straight out of the Saul Alinsky playbook: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."

The problem with your assertion is that you don't understand the rule book ( Murder is not the same as capital punishment.), and you have nothing for contempt for the said rulebook.

Re: Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence

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It doesn't say in the article, but he was executed last night :(

Thank you, was looking for this info since they did mention the 24th but hadn’t said if they really went through with it or not. Sad shit, just as sad is the fact that it seems like nothing will change.

No one is losing sleep over a murder and career violent criminal being executed. Get real.

Re: Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/23/missou... - "Among the evidence police collected: bloody shoeprints and fingerprints, a knife sheath and the suspect's hair collected from Gayle's shirt, hands and the floor. Missing from the house were Gayle's purse and jacket, and her husband's laptop."

That doesn’t say any of the evidence matched someone else. Just that hair and prints were collected. We know the prints were damaged. And hair analysis is notoriously unreliable [1]. [1] https://ncpro.sog.unc.edu/manual/622-1

Read the article, it does say that.

"In appeals, his defense team produced evidence that DNA taken from the knife revealed an unknown male profile and did not match Williams."

Re: Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Better a thousand innocent men are locked up than one guilty man roam free." To clarify, I vehemently disagree with your post and think that the pursuit of innocence is an imperative function of the state.

Funny enough, i think i agree with you. the pursuit of innocence is an imperative function of the state. And that's why we have innocent until proven guilty. But I think we disagree on our trust of the legal system. Once proven guilty under the court of law that must be upheld. If you locked the doors and burned your grandma alive because you thought she was satan you should be executed, not put in a cushy hospital t…

What if you didn't do that but someone said you did?
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