Crime Scene DNA didn't match Marcellus Williams. Missouri may fast track his execution anyway.
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Let's do some best case/worst case.
If we don't execute Marcellus Williams
Best case is he's innocent and we didn't murder Marcellus Williams.
Worst case is he's guilty and spends the rest of his life in prison.
If we do execute Marcellus Williams
Worst case is he's innocent and we murdered Marcellus Williams.
Best case is he's guilty and we murdered Marcellus Williams.
Gotta say...
Only with execution is the murder of a criminal some kind of success or best-case scenario. When we murder too, we become just as ugly. Executions don't seem to deter crime, don't seem to offer any value, are costly and probably perpetuate the cycle of violence.
That's what I mean. That's the best possible outcome, and it still means we murdered someone.
I did not understand that from your comment. Thank you for clarifying.
No problem, I didn't make it clear.
Yeah I guessed that that was what you meant, just wanted to clarify my own opinion
Execution is not punishment it is revenge.
Precisely.
pick one
Crime happened in 1998
A excerpt from the very end of the article
As someone who the system has fucked over in various ways, man, I wish that wasn't so relatable.
That’s the point though. The cruelty.
The southern states always double down on stupidity