A Questionable Murder by the State

[IM2]

The state of Missouri has just murdered a man under questionable circumstances. The family of the victim asked the state to stop the execution, but the Governor didn't care. Nor did the 6 right wing MAGGATS on the Supreme Court. This is why the death penalty should be abolished.

Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri woman's murder amid strong innocence claims​

Missouri executed Marcellus Williams by lethal injection on Tuesday in the 1998 killing of a former newspaper reporter, according to the inmate's attorney, despite a prosecutor in the case and the family of the victim saying his life should be spared.

Jonathan Potts, one of Williams' defense attorneys, confirmed to USA TODAY that he had been executed.

Williams, who maintained his innocence − a claim backed by not only his defense team but prosecutors − is now the third inmate executed in Missouri this year and the 15th in the nation.

“Tonight, we all bear witness to Missouri’s grotesque exercise of state power," Williams' attorney, Tricia Rojo Bushnell, said in a statement, emphasizing how prosecutors have "zealously fought to undo the conviction and save Mr. Williams’ life."

No DNA ever connected Williams to the crime scene. In recent months, a prosecutor in the case said the execution should have been called off, and in a clemency petition, Gayle's family said that they "define closure as Marcellus being allowed to live."

"Marcellus’ execution is not necessary," they said.

Even so, Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri Supreme Court denied Williams clemency on Monday.

And on Tuesday with less than an hour before the execution, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop it, though the court's three liberal justices said they would have granted Williams a stay: Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Marcellus Williams executed in Missouri amid strong innocence claims: 'It is murder'

The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not connect him to the case.

www.usatoday.com

 

[JGalt]

Good riddance.

 

[jotathought]

See ya!

He definitely wasn't innocent .. and multiple levels of fact-finding sources agreed: jurors, the Missouri Supreme Court, a Board of Inquiry and the St. Louis County Circuit Court. Adios!

Williams has repeatedly alleged innocence despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. None of the following fact-finding entities have been convinced of his innocence: (1) a jury of his peers at trial; (2) the Missouri Supreme Court during state habeas proceedings; (3) a Board of Inquiry; nor (4) the St. Louis County Circuit Court. The State proved that Williams is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt due to a litany of factors listed below:

• DNA technology and testing before trial did not examine “touch DNA," based on standard techniques and practices at the time. Additionally, subsequent DNA testing has never exonerated Williams.
• Williams has a robust criminal history, including 15 felony convictions in addition to offenses related to Ms. Gayle's murder: robbery (2), armed criminal action (2), assault (2), burglary (4), stealing (3), stealing a motor vehicle, and unlawful use of a weapon, which is all consistent with entering the home, attacking Ms. Gayle, and taking her items.
• Williams confessed the murder to his girlfriend soon after committing his horrific crime once his girlfriend found Ms. Gayle’s purse in Williams’ car, but he also threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone, readily explaining why his girlfriend did not approach law enforcement until Williams was in custody.
• The girlfriend never requested the reward for information about Ms. Gayle’s murder, despite claims that she was only interested in money.
• When speaking with law enforcement, the jailhouse informant provided information about the crime that was not publicly available, yet consistent with crime scene evidence and Williams’ involvement.
• Other individuals were present when Williams bragged about this murder, and they were disclosed to Williams’ team before trial and have been discussed in subsequent proceedings.
• Gayle’s personal items were found in the trunk of Williams’ car.
• Williams sold Ms. Gayle’s husband’s laptop to another individual who later identified Williams as the seller.

Williams’ disrespect for others’ well-being and aversion to order have continued in prison, including attacking other inmates and threatening correctional officers.

 

[DukeU]

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.


Williams was previously set to be executed in January 2015 and in August 2017.

Both lethal injections were halted to conduct further DNA testing and investigation. The most recent stay of execution was ordered by then-Gov. Eric Greiten who appointed a board of inquiry to look into the case.

 

[IM2]

See ya!

He definitely wasn't innocent .. and multiple levels of fact-finding sources agreed: jurors, the Missouri Supreme Court, a Board of Inquiry and the St. Louis County Circuit Court. Adios!

Wrong again. But your racist ass has chosen to ignore the facts.

 

[jotathought]

Wrong again. But your racist ass has chosen to ignore the facts.

Well .. The Supreme Court, Circuit Court, Board of Inquiry and jurors disagree with you .. Nothing racist, just reading about the decisions made from experts, as opposed to a white-hating, anonymous debate-board poster. You'll be fine. Cheers!!

 

[IM2]

Well .. The Supreme Court, Circuit Court, Board of Inquiry and jurors disagree with you .. Nothing racist, just reading about the decisions made from experts, as opposed to a white-hating, anonymous debate-board poster. You'll be fine. Cheers!!

Over a milion people agree with me. The family of the victim agree with me. The prosecuting attorney in the motherfucking case agree with me. The jurors agree with me.

The experts say:

St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell had joined Williams' attorneys in seeking an execution stay by the Missouri Supreme Court and asking for a more thorough hearing in the case.

Bell in January filed a motion seeking to vacate the verdict and death sentence in Williams' case.

Bell said newly completed DNA testing indicated Williams might not be the one who murdered Gayle and showed police had mishandled the murder weapon before the 2001 trial.

Innocence Project executive director Christina Swarns called Williams' conviction and execution the product of a "broken system" and suggested his conviction was because he was a Black man accused of killing a White woman.

"His conviction was based on the testimony of two witnesses who were paid for their testimony," Swarns said in an emailed statement Tuesday evening.

MSN

You haven't read anything from any experts. Ain't no white hate here, unless you're telling me that all whites are racists. Because you re a white racist gloating becuse a black man has been killed. You are scum.

 

[luiza]

Over a milion people agree with me.

Dreaming again
What makes you hate simple facts so much ?

 

[jotathought]

Over a milion people agree with me. The family of the victim agree with me. The prosecuting attorney in the motherfucking case agree with me. The jurors agree with me.

The experts say:

St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell had joined Williams' attorneys in seeking an execution stay by the Missouri Supreme Court and asking for a more thorough hearing in the case.

Bell in January filed a motion seeking to vacate the verdict and death sentence in Williams' case.

Bell said newly completed DNA testing indicated Williams might not be the one who murdered Gayle and showed police had mishandled the murder weapon before the 2001 trial.

Innocence Project executive director Christina Swarns called Williams' conviction and execution the product of a "broken system" and suggested his conviction was because he was a Black man accused of killing a White woman.

"His conviction was based on the testimony of two witnesses who were paid for their testimony," Swarns said in an emailed statement Tuesday evening.

MSN

You haven't read anything from any experts. Ain't no white hate here, unless you're telling me that all whites are racists. Because you re a white racist gloating becuse a black man has been killed. You are scum.

He's a gonner now .. Adios violent murder!!

 

[luiza]

He's a gonner now .. Adios violent murder!!

Good
Nobody can say that IM 2 could not see his own end .