{"id":16047,"date":"2024-09-29T00:27:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T00:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/?p=16047"},"modified":"2024-09-29T00:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T00:27:49","slug":"a-kind-and-thoughtful-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/a-kind-and-thoughtful-man\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A kind and thoughtful man.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='epvc-post-count'><span class='epvc-eye'><\/span>  <span class=\"epvc-count\"> 299<\/span><span class='epvc-label'> Views<\/span><\/div><p>Williams\u2019 execution was widely denounced on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Johnson, NAACP president, said Missouri had \u201clynched another innocent Black man\u201d. Missouri congresswoman Cori Bush said the state had failed Williams, adding: \u201cWe have a moral imperative to abolish this racist and inhumane practice.\u201d And Bell said: \u201cMarcellus Williams should be alive \u2026 This outcome did not serve the interests of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bushnell, Williams\u2019 attorney from the Midwest Innocence Project, praised Williams\u2019 \u201cevocative poetry\u201d and \u201cservice to his family and his community\u201d, saying he had been a \u201ckind and thoughtful man, who spent his last years supporting those around him in his role as imam\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile he yearned to return home, he \u2026 worked hard to move beyond the anger, frustration and fear of wrongful execution, channeling his energy into his faith and finding meaning and connection through Islam. The world will be a worse place without him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 public defenders said the governor had \u201cutterly ignored\u201d the victim\u2019s family, adding in a statement: \u201cKhaliifah was an inspiration. We aspire to his level of faith, to his integrity, and to his complete devotion to the people in his life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Smith, co-director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty, who considered Williams a mentor, said in an interview before the execution that she hoped his case would help the public understand that \u201ccapital punishment doesn\u2019t work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know people who say: \u2018We shouldn\u2019t kill innocent people, but other than that, I believe in the death penalty.\u2019 But if you believe in the system at all, that means you\u2019re OK with innocent people being killed, because the system isn\u2019t perfect. It is going to kill innocent people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since 1973, at least 200 people sentenced to death have been exonerated, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Robin Maher, the group\u2019s executive director, said she was unaware of another case in which someone was executed after a sitting prosecutor objected and confessed to constitutional errors that undermined the conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 execution is one of five scheduled across the US in a one-week period. On Friday, South Carolina executed a man days after the state\u2019s main witness recanted his testimony. On Tuesday, the state of Texas executed Travis Mullis, 38, who waived his right to appeal his death sentence for killing his three-month-old son in 2008. His attorney said he suffered a lifetime of \u201cprofound mental illness\u201d, but was a \u201credeemed man\u201d who accepted responsibility for his crime.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from www.theguardian.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>299 ViewsWilliams\u2019 execution was widely denounced on Tuesday evening. 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