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

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    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.

    Cowardly country full of cutthroat murderers.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    Based guerrilla Wikipedia edits today.

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    Known and proud murderer Michael Lynn Parson of 100 Madison Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101 is a real piece of shit, huh?

    • propter_hog [any, any]
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      3 months ago

      From the governor who oversaw the George Floyd bullshit, yeah, this is about what I'd expect.

    • KoboldKomrade [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Bet the nerds on Natopedia reverted it for WP:WEITFUIGJAIKF. AKA the "don't tell the truth about anything American without 2000000 sources" clause.

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    2 months ago

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  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      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."

    • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Reminder that Dems took abolishing the death penalty off their part platform.

      I mean yeah otherwise it might beg the question of why didn't Biden/Harris do literally anything

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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          3 months ago

          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.

          This is why I keep hoping someone generates the intestinal fortitude to actually start slapping this country in the face again. I'd betray these crackers so fucking fast... Sell 'em all out to whoever wants their blood the most, and then I'll watch what happens to 'em.

  • buh [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    the Supreme KKKourt is allowing it: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marcellus-williams-execution-supreme-court-stay-denied/

    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.

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      3 months ago

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    • june [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      Wow. I guess that's what you get when you have generation after generation committing evil, racist acts for hundreds of years.

      • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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        3 months ago

        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.

        • Grandpa_garbagio [he/him]
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          3 months ago

          It's ideological within white supremacy, we're not actually yakubian demons, but as a whole what's the fucking difference when shit like this is allowed to happen

          If you grow up under it, as a white, you basically have to spend your whole life constantly fighting off bullshit the indoctrination did to your brains core processing. Otherwise you just become evil

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    Prosecutor: I reject the death penalty

    Victims family: I reject the death penalty

    Judge: I don't!

    Isn't there someone you didn't forget to ask?

  • Angel [any]
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    3 months ago

    sadness-abysmal 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.

    At this point, I sincerely wish that were true... gun-unity

      • Angel [any]
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        3 months ago

        "Okay, but have you considered that a POC called me a anti-cracker-aktion, 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."

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    There's additional context that people might not be aware.

    He is Muslim.

    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.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      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.

  • june [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    To the governor Michael Parson and the entire Missouri supreme court:

    gui

  • booty [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    There is nothing I want to say that wouldn't be illegal.

    When our turn comes...

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  • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    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?

    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      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.

    • sleen@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      That's unfortunately the case for all things. It's a fight of who says it the loudest. And even for some things in society, attention may be futile.

      Evil people will find their own explanation for their actions even if it was disproved.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    America is not a country, it is a death cult with a standing army.