How Marcellus Williams’ execution unveils the double standard in America’s justice system

The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams after the conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop the execution. The Weekend co-hosts weigh in on this decision that occurred despite strong innocence claims.



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[thatlovelydancerIlao]

Injustice is no justice and will never satisfy the death of the victim. Now two innocents are dead

[mrsbrown]

Executions should be for crimes done without quiestion. Meaning we have no doubt it was that person per DNA, CCTV, etc. I cant even make this a black thing. It just shows how the U.S always drops the ball.

[fabinasetati]

Innalillahi Wa Innalillahi Rajioon. May Allah have Mercy on him and lighten his grave and make it a garden of Paradise. Grant family and friends Sabrun Jameel.

[Kindred]

I see some of you are claiming he was guilty, based on your own biases and ignorance. Per the Equal Justice Initiative: "With no direct evidence linking Mr. Williams to the crime, the State’s case depended on two unreliable witnesses—a jailhouse informant who claimed that Mr. Williams confessed to him, and Mr. Williams’s girlfriend, who claimed she saw Mr. Williams with the victim’s laptop. Both implicated Mr. Williams because they wanted reward money and shorter sentences in their own cases, Mr. Williams’s counsel told The Washington Post. New evidence further undermined the witnesses’ credibility, prosecutors wrote. Sworn statements from his own family state the jailhouse informant made up the story about Mr. Williams to get the reward money, and evidence emerged that Mr. Williams had gotten the laptop from his girlfriend, who had her own financial and personal motives to implicate him."

When even the *prosecutors* start saying they question the witnesses' credibility, maybe you people should realize something is wrong. Youtube doesn't let you post outside links, so you can look it up yourself if you're actually interested, but I'm sure you'd rather keep believing your assumptions are true.

[ti]

He didn’t do the crime they had no evidence on him he was cleared from blood on the dna of the crime yet they still executed him
They really don’t like us and he was Muslim too
Smh 🤦‍♂️
That’s murder

[slobodanjevtovic]

Matt Walsh did a much better job covering this.

[daughterofsarah]

The sins of Babylon will not go unseen and will be dealt with.

[AbdulAli-wyyv]

THE SHINE IN HIS FACE IS SOMETHING THAT ONLY A PERSON CLOSE TO GOD GETS

[BishopEddie]

There's no double standard, the system is working exactly as it was designed to work.

[reamoinmcdonachadh]

The Death Penalty ISN'T about punishing the guilty, although IF the evidence is there, confirmed and substantiated and the verdict fairly given, then the guilty will die, if that is the sentence. NO, the Death Penalty is about catharsis and closure, the ending of a period of grief and suffering on the part of the victim's family, their relatives and the wider community, so that all can move on.
The PROBLEM with the Death Penalty lies in two areas, the first being that no Capital Crime Verdict in the US of A can be said to be free from racism, bias, bigotry and prejudice. You only have to look at the demographic of the Condemned to notice that. The second area is the number of appeals through various courts and their Jurisdictions to see that many of the condemned often receive their day of execution YEARS after sentence, many having gone through rehabilitation, college and have graduated with degrees, distinctions and even honors!! To the degree that it can be deemed cruel and unusual punishment, and a breach of Human Rights. It serves NO-ONE'S INTEREST either the Condemned, their families, or the Victim's families, relatives and wider community to play these situations out the way they do.
If you want to keep the Death Penalty on the Statute Books, then ENSURE the case is EXHAUSTIVELY investigated, the evidence RIGOROUSLY assessed, the Trial Scrupulously Fair and even handed and the verdict rendered by a Jury OR a Judge free from all taint. And let there be but ONE or TWO appeals, and the sentence carried out with some measure of dignity, compassion and proficiency.
Otherwise do AWAY with the Death Penalty and sentence to natural life imprisonment with no possibility of parole, and be done with it.

[joedirt]

What??? I'm confused? If his conviction is overturned how did he get executed? My state gets more disgusting by the day. I stay to help fix it! But not even God can fix this. 😢

[Nocturnal]

For anyone filled either with doubt or apprehension about the death penalty; there are so many *reasons* that outweigh *feelings* on the issue. Especially in a case like this where even the prosecutor had doubts and the jury selection being _notably_ racially biased. The lack of DNA evidence and two -witness- ‘testimonies’ being gainful for both people is a judicial atrocity.

[BallOutNik]

Alhamdulillah Rabbil Alamin 🤲🏼 Maliki Yawmi Addeen

[andrewmcgregor]

Wasn't it tuesday the first day of the new moon. So he was a sacrifice. They had to sacrifice the innocent blood and not barnabas's.

[aydenross]

Strong innocence claims… okay then prove it… that simple

[fatovamingus]

You're all absolutely right: pro-life means no death penalty which is why Pope Francis changed the Catholic catechism to state that the death penalty " is inadmissible and contrary to the Gospel of Jesus Christ". It goes even further to talk about the Dignity of human life not just at the Inception but during which includes incarceration in the inhumane treatment of prisoners . Get some air conditioning Greg Abbott

[watsonanthony]

Meanwhile 45 is immune to stuff like this if was the suspect instead

[moroaica]

He had the victim's belongings in his car and sold her laptop. To say there's NOTHING connecting him to the murder is just flat out inaccurate.

[TheCraniifer]

I'm sorry, but I don't know anything about this case or what happened. Can you tell me more about it?

[ruby]

All I know is I wouldn't want a jury of everyday people deciding my fate with all the obviously ignorant, prejudice people in this country. He did not deserve the death penalty based on what I read. You have to have more certain evidence than that to take a person's life. Life in prison I get. At least there is a chance for perhaps more evidence to come to light. I'm not saying some evidence is overwhelming but in this case it doesn't seem so. Geez, , the Mendez brothers confessed to killing 2 people and didn't get the death penalty in a state that had one.