r/politics • u/seanosul • 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/notcaffeinefree 9h ago

Man, they wasted no time in carrying that out after SCOTUS denied the stay request.

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u/Gbird_22 7h ago

The Republican governor could have stopped this tragedy, but he didn’t because that’s what the people who elected him wanted done. The state didn’t execute someone, they murdered an innocent man. 

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u/StupidMario64 New York 6h ago

Call it what it is, martyrdom (if that applies), but moreso, a modern rendition of a lynching, in my eyes.

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u/TheRoseAtMidnight 6h ago

It's a modern rendition of The Green Mile

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u/mtarascio 3h ago

It's not as personal as a lynching.

That kind of makes it worse for me. It's such a dispassionate thing over a man life.

A lynching has people involved into a state of social mania and a direct appeal to their own safety.

This is just dusting off the coffee table in the room they never use.