r/news • u/Mentirosa • 9h ago

Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite prosecutors’ push to overturn conviction

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams
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u/Peach__Pixie 9h ago

In August, Williams and prosecutors reached an agreement to halt his execution: he would plead no contest to first-degree murder in exchange for a new sentence of life without parole. His lawyers said the agreement was not an admission of guilt, and that it was meant to save his life while he pursued new evidence to prove his innocence. A judge signed off on the agreement, as did the victim’s family, but the attorney general challenged it, and the state supreme court blocked it.

Even the victim's family members did not want to see this man executed. The prosecutors did not want to see this man executed. This man was failed by the courts and an Attorney General whose actions are heinous.

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u/lokarlalingran 9h ago

Failed is putting it lightly. He was murdered.

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u/Jimmyg100 7h ago

It’s like the trolly problem, but the three people aren’t tied to the tracks and can move out of the way and do move out of the way and the breaks actually work but the operator flips the switch to hit the one guy tied down anyways.