Why does this bloodthirsty chorus come ’round from time to time
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Marcellus Williams, convicted for murder by an unconstitutional jury despite extremely weak evidence, was executed by the state of Missouri (led by MAGA goon Mike Parsons) with the approval of the six Republican justices on the Supreme Court tonight :
Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.The 55-year-old was put to death around 6 p.m. CT at the state prison in Bonne Terre.
Williams’ attorneys had filed a flurry of appeal efforts based on what they described as new evidence – including alleged bias in jury selection and contamination of the murder weapon prior to trial. The victim’s family had asked the inmate be spared death.
The US Supreme Court’s action came a day after Missouri’s supreme court and governor refused to grant a stay of execution.
The high court offered no explanation for its decision, which is common for cases on its emergency docket. There were no noted dissents in two of Williiams’ appeals. In a third, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have granted the request to pause the execution.
More on the case here. For the American reactionary movement, the strong possibility of innocence is more a feature than a bug — what good is power if it’s not arbitrary and discriminatory?