Missouri Executes Innocent Man

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Tonight, Missouri will execute an innocent man," said attorney Tricia Rojo Bushnell of the Midwest Innocence Project in a statement after the Supreme Court ruling. "...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."

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This is par for the course for the racist GOP filth.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-09-25 01:58 AM | Reply

Well, the cruelty is the point. Or the sadism is the point.

Or the point may be to prepare for a time when it's common and useful to execute innocent people.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-25 07:45 AM | Reply

I've seen photos of Nazis executing children. They go about their business acting a little bored. All part of the job.

These people already exist here.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-25 07:51 AM | Reply

This is what happens when you let ideology run a court system. Judges too afraid of looking weak will never let little things like evidence or facts get in their way.

Capitol punishment is barbaric and always wrong but it was egregiously wrong yesterday in Missouri.

#4 | Posted by qcp at 2024-09-25 08:23 AM | Reply

Capital. Too early for typing.

#5 | Posted by qcp at 2024-09-25 08:34 AM | Reply

Re 5

Good catch.

Capitol punishment only occurs on Jan 6th.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-25 01:07 PM | Reply

#3
Exist here they certainly do. Once you've convinced people about an evil, threatening Other, all bets are off in terms of how beyond the accepted norms their behavior will go. An example is chronicled in Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland (www.amazon.com).

#7 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-25 01:42 PM | Reply

He must've been guilty of something, somewhere, sometime. Just like the Central Park Five.

- DonOLD Dementia.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-25 02:03 PM | Reply

Although I oppose the death sentence this was not an innocent man. He stabbed a woman 47 times leaving his knife in her neck and was later found in possession of her purse and a couple of other items that belonged to her.

In his trial the evidence was overwhelming and he was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-09-27 02:14 PM | Reply