Who Is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri Despite Evidence of Innocence

Re:Who Is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri Despite ... by ajross on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:03PM (#41653791)

I think most people would agree with that stuff in isolation, but reasonable solutions aren't really addressing the problem. Support for the Death Penalty is a political shibboleth in the modern US. It's not going to change, realistically ever, absent a major demographic realignment in the way we sort our citizens into parties.

Preaching to a choir of geeks looking for "solutions" is the wrong target.

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Re:Who Is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri Despite ... by Trill-I-Am on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:32PM (#41653954)

Plenty of states have banned it in the past 50 years. It's on the decline.

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Re:Who Is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri Despite ... by gibbetsandcrows on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @11:11PM (#41654174)

And some states while not having banned it outright have made it effectively impossible to carry out. Oregon IIRC had their execution chamber and death row dismantled when their last governor left office. Execution is still on the books though.

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Re:Who Is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri Despite ... by chris_wot on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @10:27PM (#41653923)

IMO, the only solution is to abolish it.

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