In the USA, Texas, and Missouri the two executions took place on Tuesday, one was for the black man Marcellus Williams who killed a woman and the other was for Travis Mullis, who stomped the infant.
A lot of executions were scheduled to take place on Friday in South Carolina, Oklahoma, and Alabama.
Marcellus Williams went through a lot of trials, where he was unable to withdraw from the death charges and prove his innocence. He died by lethal injection on Tuesday.
Know the Detail Charges Against the Marcellus Williams
Marcellus Williams was charged with the murder of the news reporter Felicia Gayle in 2001 and stabbed to death in her home in 1998. According to the murder trial, he broke into her home and found out she was in the shower room. He stabbed her 43 times with the butcher knife.
Her purse and her husband’s laptop were stolen. Three witnesses a person whom Marcellus Williams sold the victim’s laptop and his girlfriend who saw him dispose of the bloodied clothes worn during the murder and inmates of the St. Louis prison to whom he confessed his crime.
He was sentenced to the death penalty by Missouri Supreme Court and then the US Supreme Court also convicted him of the same charges.
He appealed to the governor of Mike Parson, who said in his statement “We hope this gives finality to a case that’s languished for decades, re-victimizing Ms. Gayle’s family for decades,“No juror no judge has ever found Williams’ innocence claim to be credible. Two decades of judicial proceedings and more than 15 judicial hearings upheld his guilty conviction. Thus the order of execution has been carried out.”
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson
But a few of the Williams attorneys Tricia Rojo Bushnell “ the state was prepared to kill an innocent man. They will do it even though the prosecutor doesn’t want him to be executed, the jurors who sentenced him to death don’t want him executed and the victims themselves don’t want him to be executed. We have a system that values finality over fairness, and this is the result that we will get from that.”
“It is news to all of us, and I think that it should be a shame to all of us, that we have a system that will let a man be executed in spite of all of this, really is not a system of justice.”
One of his other attorneys stated ” “While he would readily admit to the wrongs he had done throughout his life, he never wavered in asserting his innocence of the crime for which he was put to death tonight,” Komp said. “Although we are devastated and in disbelief over what the State has done to an innocent man, we are comforted that he left this world in peace.”
Is William Get the Fair Trial in Murder Case?
Williams whose trial ran for decades but in his last motion-to-vacate hearing on August 28 attorney asked the Missouri Supreme Court to stay the execution citing “ Newly discovered evidence from the trial prosecutor’s testimony.” last month.
But the Missouri Supreme Court decided not to halt Williams’s execution. They have cited there is no proof of mishandling of the evidence including a weapon and constitutional error during the case that undermined the original trial.
Even the victims’ family prosecutor at the St. Louis Attorney’s office reached an agreement with Williams last month that he should be resentenced to life in prison.
Which was rejected by the both state court and the US Supreme Court and he was executed on Tuesday.
Travis Mullis Also Executed at the Texas Penitentiary For the Murder of his Infant Child
Travis Mullis from Texas was pronounced dead at the state Penitentiary in Huntsville for the killing of his 3-month child son. Mullis is now 38 now deceased stomped his child in January 2008.
Prosecutors said Mullis then 21 drove to Galveston after a fight with his girlfriend. He parked his car and then sexually assaulted his infant. He then strangled his child and then took him out of the car and then stomped him to death.
Travis Mullis (young) and his Infant child
Mulis then surrendered to authorities in Philadelphia. Mulis’ attorney Shawn Nolan said his cline is severely bi pola and he was subjected to sexual assault at the age of 3. However, according to the US execution charges clause US court prohibited the death penalty for intellectually disabled people but not for people who are severely mentally ill.
Conclusion
There are many cases where the people were executed after they were clarified of their crimes. Some are exonerated after spending lots of years in jail but few get sentenced to death and after that, they are acquitted of their crimes. But the trial of the Williams again brings back a debate about black life matters.
Many activists raise the question of why black defendants are punished for the death penalty and then exonerated for their crimes. It leaves the question mark that even the world’s biggest justice system the USA has its own flaws
