Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite prosecutors’ push to overturn conviction
www.theguardian.com
Williams long maintained his innocence and the killing was opposed by victim’s family, jurors and office that tried him

From local/state level to federal level, they banded together and strung him up.

  • ☭CommieWolf☆@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    In this case the judicial angle isn’t punishment, but completion

    That’s the crazy part, the bare minimum appeal was to change his sentence to life in prison. That would still be an end to the case with a definite ruling. They chose to kill him. A lot of the opposition to his execution wasn’t even asking to release him, but to just change the sentence, they couldn’t even do the bare minimum to spare a (potentially innocent) life. Sheer barbarism.