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After years of fighting to prove his innocence, 55-year-old Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams was executed in Missouri on Tuesday, leaving behind a touching and simple message as his last statement.
A predominately white jury found Williams guilty in 2001 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who was found dead inside her home with 43 stab wounds. Williams was sentenced to death that same year.his conviction that his trial was unfair, using witnesses who were not credible and forensic evidence that had no match with Williams. The St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office, which tried the case in 2001, also said the conviction should be overturned.
According to Bushnell, those who opposed Williams’ execution included Gayle’s family, the jurors who sentenced him and more than 1 million concerned citizens and faith leaders.“The execution of an innocent person is the most extreme manifestation of Missouri’s obsession with ‘finality’ over truth, justice, and humanity, at any cost,” Bushnell said.
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