an innocent person should never be executed,” God said
T imGolden,
My name is Marcellus Williams, and I’ve been on Missouri’s death row for nearly two decades.
In 1998, I was convicted for murder, despite no physical evidence linking me to the crime. I was sentenced based off of testimonies given one year after my conviction: one by my drug addicted ex-girlfriend, the other by a fellow inmate. Neither of the testimonies were witness accounts.
Almost 20 years of my life have been taken from me. Now, the rest of it will be taken on Tuesday, when I’m scheduled to be executed.
Will you sign this petition asking Missouri Governor Eric Greitens to commute my death sentence?
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He was originally due to be executed on January 28, 2015, but Missouri’s high court decided to postpone the execution to allow time for new DNA tests to be conducted.
Those tests showed that the male DNA on the murder weapon, a knife, was not Williams’ but belonged to a third, unknown person.
Griffin Hardy, a spokesperson for Sister Helen Prejean’s anti-death penalty organisation Ministry Against the Death Penalty, told Al Jazeera: “The fact of the matter is DNA evidence shows that Marcellus Williams was not involved in this crime. That means that there is a killer who may still be out in the community at large. Missouri should use its resources to apprehend the real killer instead of executing a man who didn’t commit this crime.”
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At the time of Noura’s indictment, the police were waiting for the DNA results from samples taken from the blood spattered around Jackson’s bedroom. When the results came back, they suggested that two or three people, whose identities were unknown to the police, had been in Jackson’s bedroom. Noura’s DNA was excluded as a match for any of the three DNA profiles. But Weirich dismissed the absence of Noura’s DNA. The DNA results ‘‘didn’t point to anything, as DNA often doesn’t,’’ she told me in an interview this past spring. No physical evidence ever linked Noura to the killing.
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if y’all got DNA evidence then y’all better check it and not omit it
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an innocent person should never be executed,” God said
p.s.
if y’all are pro-CHRIST then y’all will check DNA and not omit DNA
