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This topic is a reflection of the recent event where a 55-Yr-Old Imam Marcellus Khalifah Williams was EXECUTED to DEATH in the US by lethal injection despite prosecutors' claim that he may be INNOCENT .
▪️Marcellus Williams was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening on 25th September 2024 at the state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri after the US Supreme Court denied a stay.
▪️The high court offered no explanation for its decision, which is common for cases on its emergency docket. There were no noted dissents in two of Williiams’ appeals.
▪️Marcellus was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a former newspaper reporter who was found stabbed to death in her St. Louis home.
▪️He maintained his innocence and sought to have his case reviewed, but his attempts for reprieve were unsuccessful.
▪️The family of the woman he was accused of having murdered had agreed to life imprisonment for Williams.
▪️Civil rights advocacy groups across the US tried to halt the execution, but were unsuccessful.
▪️More than 60,000 people also signed a petition calling on Governor Parson to stop the execution, but the plea fell on deaf ears.
▪️Prosecutors said new DNA evidence revealed that Williams's DNA was not found on the murder weapon. But the state Supreme Court said in its ruling that the DNA came from mishandling of the knife without gloves by an assistant prosecutor and an investigator.
▪️Marcellus Williams was a devout Muslim, an imam for prisoners and a poet, according to his legal team. His last statement was “All Praise Be to Allah In Every Situation!!!”.
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