Category: Missouri

Urgent Action: Missouri


Urgent Action for Marcellus Williams who is scheduled to be executed for a crime he did not commit

June 2024

Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24 for a crime DNA evidence proves he did not commit. The St. Louis County prosecuting attorney in Missouri USA, reviewed these DNA results and filed a motion to vacate Mr. Williams’ conviction because he believed the DNA results proved by clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Williams did not commit this crime. Although the circuit court has not yet scheduled a hearing to address this motion — and no court has ever considered the new exculpatory evidence — the Missouri Supreme Court set an execution date for Mr. Williams.

That same DNA evidence led Governor Eric Greitens to convene a board of inquiry and halt Williams’ scheduled execution just hours before he was slated to die. That inquiry later stalled, and Governor Mike Parson disbanded the board before it issued any findings (which led to a lawsuit by the Innocence Project, which still pending).

We have less than 100 days to stop the execution of an innocent person. Add your name to stop this injustice before it’s too late.

Innocence Project post

Sources: Innocent Project; St Louis Post-Despatch; Riverfront Times (Missouri)

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Urgent Action: USA


Man with intellectual disability to be executed in Missouri

Saudi Arabia is not the only country to flout international law when it comes to the death penalty.  The same is true in the US when it comes to executing people with intellectual disabilities.

Ernest Johnson faces execution on 5 October 2021. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1995 for the 1994 murders of three employees of a convenience store in Missouri. A jury sentenced him to death despite a claim of intellectual disability in violation to international law. Johnson had surgery in 2008 to remove a brain tumour which has left him with seizures. Medical experts testified that the lethal injection drugs may trigger violent and painful seizures. State and federal courts have denied his claims for relief. We urge Governor Parson to halt the execution and commute his sentence. 

Please take action on Earnest Johnson’s behalf. There is no address but you can access the appeal form here.

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