Show-Me Execution Decision

Other than ritual resistance against the death penalty . . . It was hard to understand so much opposition and attention to this case . . . Now, what seems like a final decision has been rendered along with so many protestations about evidence put to rest . . . Check-it: 

Circuit Judge Bruce Hilton on Thursday declined to throw out the conviction of Marcellus Williams, who was sentenced to death for the killing of Felicia Gayle. Without intervention from a higher state court, Gov. Mike Parson or the U.S. Supreme Court, Williams will be executed Sept. 24.

“There is no basis for a court to find that Williams is innocent, and no court has made such a finding,” Hilton wrote in his opinion. “Williams is guilty of first-degree murder and has been sentenced to death.”

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Missouri judge rejects freedom for Marcellus Williams, who is now set to be executed

Without intervention from Gov. Mike Parson or the U.S. Supreme Court, Marcellus Williams will be executed Sept. 24. Williams was nearly saved from death row after prosecutors and attorneys reached a plea deal for life in prison, but it was later withdrawn.