Execution of Marcellus Williams sparks outrage after Governor and State Supreme Court rejected bids to save him - despite prosecutors initiating proceedings to overturn death sentence

I'm with Williams and his supports on this one. Since using DNA in trials that has changed everything. One thing I know is during a stabbing there will be DNA from the person who did the stabbing everywhere and they did not find his? Who's DNA did they find?

I want solid evidence before we send someone to death. I don't think it was proven back then.

RIP MR Williams but remember God know your sins like he knows all of ours.

On my first glance read of the headline I thought it said “Marcellus Wallace”.

The St. Louis County prosecutor's office - which originally secured his conviction in 2001

Another misleading headline. It wasn't the "prosecutors" but the prosecutor's office that wanted the conviction overturned.

We have seen, since 2001 how the prosecutor's office in many localities, has been overtaken by liberal factions that almost literally decriminalize crime.

Now they are saying he is “not guilty” but only want his sentence reduced to life in prison.

What’s wrong with that picture?

I’ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin’ ni@@as, who’ll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin’, hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. I’ma get medieval on your ass.

1. I have seen no reports that any DNA was recovered at the scene.

2. I considered the defendant's case to be much stronger until I saw that his apologists in the article include a moron like Cori Bush and a Branch Covidian foreigner like Richard Branson.

Zed. like the Gimp, soon to be dead!

I have not read all the court papers and I’d like to know more on this. I’m just telling you that since DNA started being used in trials it has made it harder to prove a person guilty AND it has proven people innocent!

There was a case in my own state that I will never forget. At the Huntington Mall in Barboursville, WV a woman was raped. They caught a man who said he did not do it. This was back in the 1980’s long before DNA. All during the trial and after he as found guilty he was screaming he did not do it. Well fast forward years later when DNA got on the scene this man demanded it and guess what? HE WAS INNOCENT. The DNA in that woman and his was not a match. They let him go and he files a lawsuit but what he won was not enough after being raped himself in prison and being wrongly accused.
Oh and they caught the man who did rape her using the DNA. He as already in prison for you guessed it.

I am against the death penalty, and had Williams' sentence been changed to life without parole, it would have been just.

But, I think there are different ideas being presented that I believe are not being thoroughly examined. The evidence shows that Williams had both a purse belonging to the victim, and a laptop belonging to the victim's husband in his car. He sold that laptop several days after the murder. Those facts have not been explained in a way that indicates innocence. The testimony from his girlfriend indicated that he had blood on his shirt when she saw him soon after the murder had been committed. As for the jailhouse snitch, I don't think that's relevant. And as far as the bias at the trial, I think that's simply a common avenue to try to get a new trial.

This case has been looked at by many different people, and they have all come to the same conclusion-Williams is guilty of this murder.

>> We have seen, since 2001 how the prosecutor’s office in many localities, has been overtaken by liberal factions that almost literally decriminalize crime.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THAT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

normally I am not on the same side as NAACP, but there are enough history of death penalty errors and men wrongfully executed that I would like to see an end to the death penalty altogether.

The only DNA they found was from someone in the prosecutor’s office who handled the knife without gloves.