Missouri set to execute inmate despite evidence suggesting innocence [View all]
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Source: U.zk. Indeprndent
Marcellus Williams, now 48, was found guilty of the August 1998 murder of Lisha Gayle, 42, at home in St Louis. He was convicted and sentenced to death three years later.
He is scheduled to be killed by lethal injection at 6pm on Tuesday (12am GMT).
There is no physical evidence, no eyewitnesses that directly connect Williams to the murder, the DNA on the weapon wasn't his, the bloody footprint at the murder scene wasn't from Williams' shoe and was a different size, and the hair fibres found weren't his.
In 2015 the Missouri Supreme Court delayed Williams’ execution to allow for further DNA testing, but despite the new evidence it ruled last week that the killing should go ahead. Williams’ legal team is requesting a new hearing or for his sentence to be reduced to life in prison.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/marcellus-williams-missouri-execution-death-row-inmate-new-evidence-innocence-murder-neil-gorsuch-a7906321.html
Why are states hell bent on executions, despite evidence to the contrary? This man received a stall, for the sake of DNA testing; which appears to be exonerating.
WTF!
UPDATE
LL Cool J. asks people to get the word out and provides link to Petition
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