Less than 3 hours left before Missouri knowingly and willfully executes an innocent man.
The state of Missouri is set to execute Marcellus, even though literally NO ONE with a stake in the outcome of the case—not even the prosecutor nor the victim's family— wants him to die. Learn More Here
CNN — [Breaking news update, published at 7:18 p.m. ET]
Marcellus Williams, whose murder conviction was questioned by a prosecutor, died by lethal injection Tuesday evening in Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.
I was braced for disappointment, but this story lead me to look up stats on Americans' opinions on the death penalty, and it was worse than I thought.
The majority support the death penalty, even though the majority also believe that black people are disproportionately subjected to it, that it doesn't deter serious crimes, and that there is risk of killing an innocent person. Americans are just that fucking bloodthirsty apparently, they can agree with you on all of the reasons why the death penalty should be abolished, and still turn around and support it.
Americans would rather kill a dozen innocents than risk letting someone guilty live. It's lunacy. And as the empire collapses, have no doubt, Americans would absolutely rather watch the entire world burn in nuclear fire than let the wicked, undeserving people of the world control their own destinies.
I've genuinely looped around to a point of assuming the same kernel of entitled evil that existed in the original pilgrims still germinates within settler spawn. Fuck all the kumbaya bullshit; there is unaddressed, both naturally in-bred and taught after the fact, evil in the white man and woman that can only be excised through self-awareness that most Amerikans will never attain.
I think that's enough internet for today for me. I have nothing funny or clever to say about this and something inside me is still somehow shocked by such a level of petty murderous hatred.
This isn't politics related but Wikipedia made me find a source to prove a song didn't have a harmonica part in it. They're so fucking petty over the most random shit it's not even funny.
The state didn't just murdered a Black man but murdered a Black Muslim man. And from the interview between Black Myths Podcast and an organizer trying to get him out, he was a devout Muslim too, serving as an imam for the Muslim inmates. This means that his jailers are also aware of his Muslim faith. Besides the US just being foundationally anti-Black, there is also an Islamophobic component to this as well, which will only intensify as the Zionist entity continues to collapse on itself.
Becoming a priest doesn't always abolish your past, but JFC how messed up do you have to be to execute one on shaky evidence? Imagine if this happened to a white preacher. Evangelicals would be foaming at the mouth at how "There's a war on Jesus and Christianity!" It would fuel their persecution complex for decades.
But since it's a black Muslim, nothing will fundamentally change. This country is completely okay with killing sections of its population, so long as they aren't straight, cishet WASPS. And even then, lol.
This is devastating. Reminder that Dems took abolishing the death penalty off their part platform. Literally every single day there is another horror that convinces me that the America of 2024 is no different to the America of the Trail of Tears.
one of Clinton's political moves during his 92 campaign was to go back to his home state to sit and watch a mentally-disabled man be executed to show he was "tough on crime."
It still begs the question of how much longer they think they can keep murdering innocent folk, this is one of the most unambigiously ghoulish things the US has done domestically in recent memory. There is literally nothing that justifies this. No amount of concern trolling or formalism can take away from the fact that an innocent man, with DNA evidence already available that proved his innocence, was murdered for no other reason than being black.
Then, hours before Williams was set to be executed, then-Gov. Eric Greitens called it off and appointed a panel of five retired judges to investigate the DNA evidence. The board, however, was dissolved by Parson in June 2023 and never issued its final report.
Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by 6 votes to 3 that a claim of actual innocence does not entitle a petitioner to federal habeas corpus relief by way of the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Or, as the Onion has put it, "Supreme Court Overturns Right v. Wrong."
A white person recently told me that systemic racism against POC doesn't exist anymore and that the roles have reversed to white people being the truly oppressed race nowadays.
"Okay, but have you considered that a POC called me a , and nobody batted an eye when they did it? The fact that I can't get the same degree of chill when I unleash some gamer speak means that anti-white racism is bringing us down on a grand, major systemic level."
Marcellus is probably going to die. There's barely any hope left, unfortunately, and the best that we can do of this is to use this to organise a even harder protest, burn the town and radicalise the crowd.
The Burgerland legalized murder of a black man through the very institution that claims to provide justice. And this slippery slope is a "stepping" stone to cull PoCs.
Isn't there some other likely innocent guy about to be executed? Does this happen more than we think and the media is just paying a bit more attention now?
Yes there is another one scheduled for October. An innocent Autistic father wrongfully accused of murdering his terminally ill daughter. Here's the link to his case.
If it's the case I'm thinking of, it's already too late, they killed him Friday. But it might not be the same, unfortunately we kill innocent people somewhat regularly.
I don't want to hear another anglo ever ask me why I'd rather watch this country burn than organize with a cracker again. The crimes of this guilty land will not be washed away but by settler blood.
I wish I were religious so that I could earnestly believe that there is a special place in hell for all those involved in this travesty of justice. May this country rot.
I don't think so. The president can only pardon for federal crimes, and I think he is charged under Missouri state law. Which is why it was the governor's choice to grant him clemency or not.
This hasn't been tested and, if you were some sicko lib who actually wanted to forecast how dead white men 250 years ago would think about the introduction of federal review of state crimes 150 years ago, there are some reasons to think that the pardon power ought to have applied.
We might see it tested if Trump wins and the supreme court can make up whatever they want
Need a graphic George Floyd replaced with Marcellus Williams. With the Missouri gov putting his knee on Williams neck looking smugly at the crowd watching him as his lackeys inject poison with a speech bubble "I can't breathe" above Williams. Supreme Court looking the other way.
The timer on the Innocence Project website (intentionally not linking it here because it is loading so slowly I assume they are getting slammed right now) shows two more hours for some reason