Exonerees and advocates are calling out Missouri's Republican attorney general for pushing for a man's upcoming execution despite opposition from the local prosecutor.
Marcellus Williams is scheduled to die Sept. 24, roughly a month after a planned Aug. 21Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey's office had asked judges to stop the hearing, arguing that the state Supreme Court had rejected Williams' innocence claims twice.
Krone and other advocates spoke to reporters in the state Capitol building flanked by signs that read, “You can release an innocent man from prison, but you can't release him from the grave.” “Too often, people forget about all of the evidence that was used to convict the defendant — the evidence that jury relied on — and the victims,” Bailey told reporters. “And I want to make sure that we always honor the victims' voices, because they get forgotten.”
Williams, 55, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1998 stabbing death of Lisha Gayle during a robbery of her suburban St. Louis home. He was
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