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Date: September 24, 2024 at 10:42:53
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Likely Innocent Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of SC |
URL: https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/24/tricia_rojo_bushnell_marcellus_williams |
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can you people think about any other important news going on in this country besides donald trump? Y'all seem to be so certain he's gonna loose, so why not move the fuck on already. This innocent man is set to killed by the US tonight.
Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of Supreme Court; Victim’s Family, Prosecutor Don’t Want Him to Die
TOPICS
Death Penalty
Criminal Legal System
Missouri
GUESTS
Tricia Rojo Bushnell
executive director of the Midwest Innocence Project and an attorney for Marcellus Williams.
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The Midwest Innocence Project
Image Credit: Innocence Project
The state of Missouri is set to kill Marcellus Williams tonight. Williams has always maintained his innocence in the 1998 killing of St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Lisha Gayle during a robbery. The jurors, prosecutors and victim’s family are all supporting Williams’s bid for clemency, which has been denied by Missouri’s Republican governor and state Supreme Court. “What we see is a system that’s looking at finality over fairness, rushing to get to an execution date instead of taking the time to stop this execution and look at the merits of what is being argued,” says Williams’s attorney and the executive director of the Midwest Innocence Project, Tricia Rojo Bushnell, who is now seeking a last-minute reprieve and reassessment of the case from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Transcript
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
Unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, the state of Missouri will kill Marcellus Williams at 6 p.m. Central Time today. On Monday, Republican Governor Mike Parson turned down Williams’ bid for clemency, followed a short time later by the Missouri Supreme Court rejecting his latest legal challenge.
Williams is African American. He was convicted in 2001 of killing a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, Lisha Gayle, who is white, during a robbery. He was convicted by 11 white jurors and one Black juror after the prosecution was allowed to preemptively strike out six other prospective Black jurors. Williams always maintained his innocence. The jurors, the prosecutor and the murder victim’s family all oppose Williams’ execution.
For more, we’re joined in Kansas City, Missouri, by Tricia Rojo Bushnell, Marcellus Williams’ attorney, executive director of the Midwest Innocence Project.
Welcome to Democracy Now! We only have a few minutes, but it’s possible that Marcellus Williams only has a few hours. Can you explain what you are calling for and what this case, at the last minute, is all about?
TRICIA ROJO BUSHNELL: Yes. At this time, we’re asking for what Marcellus Williams has been asking for for 23 years, which is for a court to take a full and accurate review of the proceedings before it. Right now for the first time ever, a few weeks ago, the prosecutor had to take the stand and testify, under oath, about his strikes that he used during the jury selection process. And at that hearing, he testified that he, at least in part, struck a juror based on his race. Yet right now we have yet to have a court who will fully examine and review that evidence. We know that that’s a violation of the Constitution. The prosecutor agrees that violated Williams’ constitutional rights. But what we see is a system that’s looking at finality over fairness, rushing to get to an execution date instead of taking the time to stop this execution and look at the merits of what is being argued.
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And what was the main evidence against him? And could you talk about the advanced DNA testing and what it’s revealed about the murder weapon?
TRICIA ROJO BUSHNELL: Yes. So, Mr. Williams was convicted based on what we know is a leading cause of wrongful conviction, which is essentially informant testimony. So, this is a murder where there were no leads for months and months, and then, at some point, the police suggested to the victim’s husband that he should offer a reward. And it was only then, after a $10,000 reward had been offered, that the first informant came forward, a jailhouse informant, who said also that he wouldn’t testify until he got the money. The information he provided was information that was essentially out in the public sphere from the newspaper, but he also provided information about another informant, a woman named Laura Asaro, who had had connections to Marcellus Williams in the past. She also not only had — incentivized by the reward money, but the police forced her to talk by picking her up on her own warrants and saying, you know, “We can arrest you and charge you with these crimes unless you help us here.”
But at that time of the crime, there was a number of pieces of forensic evidence, including bloody footprints and hairs found at the crime scene, all of which exclude Marcellus Williams. In 2015, however, Mr. Williams requested additional DNA testing of the murder weapon, which was a knife found still protruding from the victim’s body. That DNA testing was performed. Male DNA was found on that murder weapon, and it excludes Marcellus Williams. He is not the person who left that DNA on the knife.
Based on all of that evidence, the prosecutor reviewed the case, brought forward this motion to overturn Mr. Williams’ conviction on the basis of innocence, as well as on the basis of these constitutional violations, including racial discrimination. But on the day before the evidentiary hearing, new DNA testing came in that showed that the DNA on that knife could be consistent with the prosecutor’s, the trial prosecutor’s DNA and the trial prosecutor’s investigator. At the evidentiary hearing, we have now learned that they mishandled that knife. They touched it without gloves in 2001 repeatedly, essentially destroying any potential probative value this critical evidence would have, which is what the prosecutor now also concedes was a constitutional violation.
AMY GOODMAN: So, Tricia, who is in charge at the U.S. Supreme Court of this case? What has to happen today?
TRICIA ROJO BUSHNELL: So, the stay motions go to Justice Kavanaugh, but the courts are going to be reviewing all of the cert petitions, the requests that the Supreme Court take on the case, as well as the motions to stop the execution. There are three petitions pending before the U.S. Supreme Court right now. The first is regarding the governor, Parson, had dissolved what was called a board of inquiry that was created to review all of this evidence. He dissolved it, even though Governor Eric Greitens had appointed it. So the first is regards to whether or not he was able to do that. The second is whether the federal courts should reopen the case to allow this new evidence of racial discrimination in the jury selection to be heard. And the last one, filed last night, is about what weight should the prosecutor be given, his concessions be given? And we know that the U.S. Supreme Court has already granted review of a similar case, the case of Richard Glossip out of Oklahoma, where the attorney general there said —
AMY GOODMAN: We have five seconds.
TRICIA ROJO BUSHNELL: — said the same thing, that, you know, a constitutional error occurred here, and we shouldn’t execute him. And so, for those same reasons, the court should hear this case, as well.
AMY GOODMAN: Tricia Rojo Bushnell, executive director of the Midwest Innocence Project. The prosecutor, the jurors and the victim’s family have called for him not to be executed. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 15:47:43
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: “Tonight, Missouri will execute an innocent man, Marcellus “Khaliifah” |
URL: https://innocenceproject.org/attorney-statement-on-the-pending-execution-of-marcellus-williams/ |
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News
Attorney Statement on the Pending Execution of Marcellus Williams
“Tonight, Missouri will execute an innocent man, Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams,"
said Tricia Rojo Bushnell, attorney for Mr. Williams.
Urgent 09.24.24 By Innocence Staff
“Tonight, Missouri will execute an innocent man, Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams.
The victim’s family opposes his execution. Jurors, who originally sentenced him
to death, now oppose his execution. The prosecutor’s office that convicted and
sentenced him to death has now admitted they were wrong and zealously
fought to undo the conviction and save Mr. Williams’ life. More than one million
concerned citizens and faith leaders implored Governor Parson to commute
Marcellus’s death sentence. Missouri will kill him anyway.
“That is not justice. And we must all question any system that would allow this
to occur. The execution of an innocent person is the most extreme
manifestation of Missouri’s obsession with ‘finality’ over truth, justice, and
humanity, at any cost.
“Khaliifah is a kind and thoughtful man, who spent his last years supporting
those around him in his role as Imam. We will remember him for his deeply
evocative poetry and his love for and service to his family and his community.
While he yearned to return home, he is a thoughtful man who has worked hard
to move beyond the anger, frustration, and fear of wrongful execution,
channeling his energy into his faith and finding meaning and connection
through Islam. The world will be a worse place without him.
“As dark as today is, we owe it to Khaliifah to build a brighter future. We are
thankful to the St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney, for his commitment to truth and
justice and all he did to try to prevent this unspeakable wrong. And for the
millions of people who signed petitions, made calls, and shared Khaliifah’s
story.
“Tonight, we all bear witness to Missouri’s grotesque exercise of state power.
Let it not be in vain. This should never happen, and we must not let it continue.”
Tricia Rojo Bushnell
September 24, 2024
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 15:28:47
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Supreme Court refuses to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams |
URL: https://x.com/JeffreyStClair3 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court refuses to halt the execution of Missouri
death row inmate Marcellus Williams.
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Date: September 27, 2024 at 13:28:27
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Supreme Court refuses to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams |
URL: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/27/the-judicial-murder-of-marcellus-williams/ |
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September 27, 2024
The Judicial Murder of Marcellus Williams
Jeffrey St. Clair
The State of Missouri executed Marcellus “Khalifah” Williams on Tuesday night despite knowing he was most likely innocent of the crime he was condemned for.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though he’d consistently professed his innocence of the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle.
The State of Missouri put Marcellus Williams to death by injecting him with a toxic chemical compound known to cause extreme pain and suffering.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though the prosecutorial office that put him on trial determined that his conviction should be vacated.
The State of Missouri executed Williams after several jurors who voted to convict and sentence him to death said they now regretted their verdict and wanted to see him freed.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though the state admitted that the physical evidence used to convict him had been mishandled and tainted by a sloppy police investigation.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though there was no physical evidence to tie him to the murder scene.
The State of Missouri executed Williams, although the prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense.
The State of Missouri executed Williams despite the fact that prospective jurors in the case who were black were arbitrarily excluded from the jury.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even after it was revealed that his prosecutor excluded a Black juror because he said the juror “looked like Williams’ brother.”
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though his jury consisted of 11 whites and one black.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though the two witnesses against him were known liars.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though the two witnesses against him were both felons.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though the two witnesses against him changed their stories multiple times before the trial.
The State of Missouri executed Williams after both witnesses against him learned of a $10,000 reward offered by the family of the victim.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though both witnesses against him were given lenient treatment in pending legal cases.
The State of Missouri executed Williams, although false testimony from “incentivized witnesses” is the leading cause of wrongful convictions.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though one of the witnesses against him was a jailhouse informant.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though eleven of the 54 individuals exonerated in Missouri were convicted with the use of testimony from jailhouse informants.
The State of Missouri executed Williams despite data that defendants in St. Louis who were convicted in capital cases were 3.5 times more likely to receive the death penalty if the victim was white and the defendant black, as in Williams’s case.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though he’d transformed his life while in prison, becoming an imam, a mentor to other prisoners, and a poet. Even on death row, Williams remained, according to his children, a “dutiful” father.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though nine years ago, the Missouri Supreme Court stayed his execution and appointed a special master to review DNA testing of potentially exculpatory evidence.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though DNA testing conducted in 2016 showed that Williams was not the source of male DNA found on the murder weapon.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though he was granted a stay by then-Governor Eric Greitens on August 22, 2017, after eating his last meal and just hours before he was scheduled to be put to death.
The State of Missouri executed Williams after the new Governor, Mike Parson Parsons, illegally dissolved the Board of Inquiry before it had a chance to issue its report on the DNA evidence that cleared Williams of the murder.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though St. Louis District Attorney Wesley Bell said that the DNA results and lack of other evidence in the case “cast inexorable doubt on Mr. Williams’s conviction and sentence.”
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though the DNA expert who reviewed the evidence in the case asked, “How innocent do you have to be to avoid being executed?”
The State of Missouri executed Williams even after Williams and prosecutors reached an agreement that he would enter an Alford plea to first-degree murder in exchange for a new sentence of life without parole. (The plea was not an admission of guilt and would not have prohibited him from appealing his conviction.)
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though a judge approved the plea deal.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though Gayle’s family urged that his life be spared. (The desires of families of murder victims for retributive justice are often used by prosecutors to justify the execution of death row inmates. But when these families oppose killing people in the name of their murdered loved ones, their wishes and moral beliefs are ignored.)
The State of Missouri executed Williams despite any evidence that executions are a deterrent to homicides or other crimes.
The State of Missouri executed Williams after 6 “pro-life” justices of the Supreme Court refused to issue a stay to review evidence proving his innocence.
The State of Missouri executed Williams after a Supreme Court that has granted only 11 stays of execution out of 270 requests in the last ten years denied his.
The State of Missouri executed Williams after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refused to speak out against the execution of an innocent black man.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though at least 200 people on death row have been exonerated since the reinstitution of the death penalty in 1973.
The State of Missouri executed Williams after the Democratic Party removed its opposition to the death penalty from its platform. The 2020 and 2016 Democratic platforms called for the abolition of the death penalty, which they described as “a cruel and unusual form of punishment” which “has no place” in the nation.
The State of Missouri executed Williams, knowing that the state’s Attorney General’s Office has opposed every innocence case for the last 30 years.
The State of Missouri executed Williams even though at least 20 likely innocent people have been executed in the US since 1989. Their names are:
+ Carlos DeLuna (Texas, executed 1989)
+ Ruben Cantu (Texas, executed 1993)
+ Larry Griffin (Missouri, executed 1995)
+ Joseph O’Dell (Virginia, executed 1997)
+ David Spence (Texas, executed 1997)
+ Leo Jones (Florida, executed 1998)
+ Gary Graham (Texas, executed 2000)
+ Claude Jones (Texas, executed 2000)
+ Cameron Todd Willingham (Texas, executed 2004)
+ Sedley Alley (Tennessee, executed 2006)
+ Troy Davis (Georgia, executed 2011)
+ Lester Bower (Texas, executed 2015)
+ Brian Terrell (Georgia, executed 2015)
+ Richard Masterson (Texas, executed 2016)
+ Robert Pruett (Texas, executed 2017)
+ Carlton Michael Gary (Georgia, executed 2018)
+ Domineque Ray (Alabama, executed 2019)
+ Larry Swearingen (Texas, executed 2019)
+ Walter Barton (Missouri, executed 2020)
+ Nathaniel Woods (Alabama, executed 2020)
The State of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams, making him the 21st person executed in the US since the reinstitution of the death penalty despite credible evidence of their innocence.
The State of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams and plans to execute Christopher Leroy Collings in December.
The State of Missouri plans to execute another innocent man, Robert Roberson, on October 17.
Jeffrey St. Clair is editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or on Twitter @JeffreyStClair3.
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Date: September 28, 2024 at 01:17:23
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Supreme Court refuses to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams |
URL: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/09/27/from-a-hurting-heart-on-the-execution-of-marcellus-williams/ |
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September 27, 2024
From a Hurting Heart: On the Execution of Marcellus Williams
Laura Finley
Marcellus Williams.
There’s no other way to write this outside of the extensive curse words I want to use: What, the actual, hell? How on earth does the United States have such a deeply flawed system of injustice that the state of Missouri executed a man that both the defense and prosecution believed was innocent? My heart is heavy. How about you?
The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday, September 24. He was convicted of a murder committed in 1998. It was apparently a burglary gone wrong that resulted in the killing of former newspaper reporter Lisha Gayle. Williams was sentenced to death.
There is significant evidence that Williams was wrongly convicted. The original prosecutor, Wesley Bell, sought to block the execution out of concerns about the trial. Bell had concern about two of the primary trial witnesses as well as how prosecutors excluded Black jurors. Further, there was no DNA evidence tying Williams to the crime scene. In fact, the DNA found on the knife used in the murder was actually from a prosecutor and investigator who processed the scene without wearing gloves. Repeated DNA testing found no connection to Williams.
The victim’s family as well as several jurors who served on the trial expressed doubt about Williams’ guilt and wished to spare his life. Inexplicably, none of this was enough to commute Williams’ sentence to life in prison because it did not establish his “actual innocence.”
The witnesses who did testify, as is often the case, were seemingly trying to game this messed up system. One who shared a jail cell with Williams and to whom he allegedly confessed, had been convicted of felonies and offered reward to testify. Likewise, a girlfriend who testified likely falsified her claims for financial gain.
Williams’ case is yet another example of how the system of capital punishment is broken beyond repair. The absurdity that everyone can agree that someone is innocent but that bureaucratic issues prevail is not a sign of a healthy system of justice.
I care a lot that Marcellus Williams was apparently wrongly convicted and certainly wrongly executed. We should all, because executions take place in our names with our tax dollars. We need to speak up, not just when the system gets it so horrifically wrong, as it did here, but because if we do not, our silence is endorsement that the state killing people is OK. I cannot live with that. I hope others cannot as well.
As many have pointed out, making a mistake in convicting someone is a fixable problem–unless the punishment is the death penalty. Then a fix is forever impossible. Why would we operate this way?
I am feeling so distraught, yet I am still trying to see a glimmer of hope. As a college professor, I am so fortunate to work with amazing students who I think will do better. I have the most wonderfully smart daughter who I know will be part of the solution.
I can’t stop crying. We can’t stop trying.
Laura Finley, Ph.D., teaches in the Barry University Department of Sociology & Criminology and is syndicated by PeaceVoice.
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Date: September 28, 2024 at 18:44:09
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Supreme Court refuses to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams |
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I believe the phrase, "the cruelty is the point"
probably applies to the Missouri system.
What a tragic travesty.
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 15:57:20
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: murderous thugs: Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Thomas |
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Samuel Alito, Amy Comey Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, John
Roberts, and Clarence Thomas are, with this decision, more guilty of murder
than the man whose murder they are facilitating.
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 16:11:10
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: murderous thugs: Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts,... |
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Is it an accident these events are happening in "red"
states that promote the party that glorifies violence?
Why do you think that is?
What do you think they have to gain from such a policy?
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 17:11:34
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: thinking about your post |
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What do you think Biden has to gain from a policy supporting genocide?
It's fascinating that you seem to be so disturbed by the right wing being "the
party that glorifies violence", yet support a democrat administration that's been
participating in a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign for 12 months and counting.
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 20:42:57
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: thinking about your post |
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We don't have a "democrat administration that's been
participating in a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign for
12 months".
That is a small piece of the truth, just not the whole
story. We live in a country that has supported Israel
despite promoting a two state solution since 1948. All
that time pressuring, setting agreements, to no avail
and yet continue to play the game.
And this genocide is the culmination of years of
planning by Hamas. The US did not participate in that
or their attack on Israel setting up an entire
population for inevitable misery. Biden had nothing to
do with it. Even the monies for munitions were
allotted before even *rump took office. Biden has not
controlled Netanyahu, Netanyahu has not controlled
Hamas, and Hamas hides in communal tents. This
situation calls for more genius than any of them
demonstrate.
I realize this time it's a Democratic President, but a
Republican House ( read purse strings ). Yet you
ignore the *rump administration and minion's not only
complicity but much more extreme language and intention
toward Palestine.
I question your motives, inability to recognize
interests of all and sympathy for the people who just
want a life free of supremacists and righteous anger
who live throughout the region. But these questions
are just because I hear the cries of all who just want
a happy day denied to them. All suffer from the
religious extremism and addiction to violence promoted
by the greedy.
We live in dangerous times that in taking one side or
the other is a prescription for disaster.
Abandon Israel to the whims of its enemies and allow
our interests to be overrun as well? Or support the
efforts to destroy one rabid government by an
uncontrollable one? Deny them weapons to be used
locally or allow them to be backed into a corner where
they have no option but to use a nuclear weapon?
I think this plan to destroy Gaza was not well
considered, that genocide on any side is bad, and here
it exists on both. Today the upper hand is Israel, any
country surrounded by millions of enemies should take
care.
Your fascination is a mystery since all the above has
been stated previously.
The simplistic posts you offer are too often just the
function of propaganda.
My mother hated the sound of German. She was in charge
of the amputation ward at the Battle of the Bulge. It
was years before I had dinner with an Austrian who had
walked to school between corpses tossed about by
American bombs. Another few years when I helped an
Italian shepherd whose village had been destroyed by
similar bombs. Their misery communicated something
beyond sides of war and blame. All just wanted to be
happy.
Suggest an alternative to killing civilians during a
war with an embedded militia during urban warfare.
I'll listen.
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 16:15:30
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: murderous thugs: Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts,... |
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 16:36:00
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: murderous thugs: Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts,... |
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Nobody can make you happy, can they?
You bitch and insult us for not chiming in on the issues
and stories you raise...
Now you bitch and insult mitra in response to her posting
essentially in agreement with you, about this case,
mentioning the connection with GOPer states......?
Nice...
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 21:20:14
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: murderous thugs: Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts,... |
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Yes, I totally agreed innocent people shouldn't get
the death penalty!
And it seems to be a fashion in red states. What are
they doing dominating the news, the bunch of them, all
together with the death of innocents in the midst of
pre-election shenanigans?
Doesn't it seem interesting? Are they just sending a
warning, we will kill these innocents, you better shut
up about our voting interference or it will happen to
you, too? Wouldn't put it past those Supremes, either.
But sometimes I'm just too... too... how did Akira put
it... genius for words.
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 15:49:07
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: DNA evidence proves Marcellus Williams is innocent |
URL: https://x.com/search?q=%22Marcellus%20Williams%22&src=trend_click&vertical=trends |
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DNA evidence proves Marcellus Williams is innocent. The St. Louis County
prosecuting attorney reviewed these DNA results and filed a motion to vacate
Mr. Williams’ conviction. #marcelluswilliams
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 13:22:33
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Likely Innocent Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of SC |
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Ironical you attack innocent people to share a story of
an innocent attacked.
There is no guarantee that the *rump is going to win.
There are strategies in motion, in my state, 500,000
people have recently been tossed off voter rolls
because they MOVED, etc., and the most likely to move
are the urban people, also most like to be Democrat.
How convenient. There was one mention on one news
channel.
Too many other states have similar and other activities
at play. So, no. There are no guarantee *rump will
win.
Further, while newsworthy, this story is replicated in
other states. In Texas an innocent man, known to be
innocent and declared so by the prosecutor but too late
for the state regulations on protest, depend on the
good graces of Abbott for pardon. So far not
forthcoming from this trumplican wannabe.
In Oklahoma a man is set to be executed for murder even
though he did not commit the crime, and is acknowledged
so, again dependent on the graces of another
Republican, trumplican wannabe governor.
See a trend here? *rump has opened the sewers and
continued support for him suggests that it was not a
sewer, as everyone originally thought, but Hellmouth,
and the evils and demons just keep coming as the one
you mentioned.
So forgive us for not presenting the focus you expect.
There are many stories I do not see here, that does not
diminish the ones I do.
As for moving the fuck on... no. The importance of the
creature of Hellmouth and his demons will recede more
quickly when the rule of law is restored above the maga
mob boss and companion oligarchs.
And of course, all that Shadow said.
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 10:58:19
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Likely Innocent Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of SC |
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Yes, akira, the fact that this is happening IS seriously
heinous...I sure do hate that it is, as I hate all
instances of injustice...
But...any chance you might be able to re-read your post
and consider whether you might be ripe for a wee re-set?
Usually you wait until people here don't respond
sufficiently and in correct timimg for you, before you
whip out your verbal Indictment sword; this time, we're
dissed and denounced as inappropriately focusing on DJT
instead of...THIS article, which you've only now just
posted... ;)
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 11:10:25
From: shadow , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Likely Innocent Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of SC |
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Oh...wait, now I get it. A little slow on the uptake this
morning.
You're saying, others of us should have been scouring the
news for these types of stories and posted this one BEFORE
you did...right? To demonstrate for you that we do, oh yes
we do, care about something other than DJT...
Yeah, sorry, I forgot that the purpose of our existence
here, on this forum, is to reflect *you* back to yourself,
so you can see your own sensibilities validated...
I'll try to do faster next time.
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 16:04:27
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Likely Innocent Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of SC |
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Yep. That's you. slow. LOL.
Your posts are so kind and informative.
I often read yours first and backtrack.
Did I ever say thank you?
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 16:33:21
From: shadow , [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Likely Innocent Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of SC |
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The feeling's mutual, mitra, thank you so much for your
posts as well...I often read yours first too... ;)
But oh my yes, make no mistake, I am often slow as cold
molasses in many ways and for many things! ;-O
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Date: September 24, 2024 at 21:31:00
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Likely Innocent Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of SC |
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But molasses is so good for you!
So forgive my tre's 90s saying, "that's a feature, not
a bug!"
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Date: September 25, 2024 at 07:19:53
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Likely Innocent Marcellus Williams Execution in Hands of SC |
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You're very kind, (((mitra)))... ;)
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