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theglobalcommonsMissouri Governor Mike Parson commutes the sentence of a white Kansas City officer convicted of fatally shooting a Black man in 2019.
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A Missouri judge has ruled that the state's GOP governor, not a local Democratic official, has the power to fill a prosecutor vacancy in St.
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OUR COMMON GROUND"Missouri Republicans and the Conservative Supreme Court ignored the pleas of prosecutors and just executed Marcellus Williams, an innocent Black man. The hoods are off."
"The extremist conservative majority on the Supreme Court gave them extra rope at the last second just for good measure in a 6-3 decision rejecting his request to delay the execution. So much for being pro-life."
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/a-modern-day-lynching-in-missouri
Steve Dustcircle 🌹#SupremeCourt allows #MarcellusWilliams to be #executed
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/09/supreme-court-allows-marcellus-williams-to-be-executed/
#MissouriSupremeCourt and the state’s governor, #MikeParson, turned down requests to stop the #execution. Prosecutors in #StLouis, where Williams was convicted, had asked courts to overturn his conviction, but the state’s attorney general, #AndrewBailey, opposed those efforts.
The only #evidence linking Williams to the #murder was a laptop stolen from Gayle’s husband.
Supreme Court allows Marcellus Williams to be executed - SCOTUSblog
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of Marcellus Williams, who in 2001 was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 stabbing murder of Felicia Gayle. None of the forensic evidence found in Gayle’s house tied Williams to the scene and his lawyers argued there was reason
A Missouri man convicted of murder was executed Tuesday evening after efforts by his attorneys as well the prosecutor's office to halt it were rejected by the governor and Supreme Court.
The State destroyed or corrupted the evidence that could conclusively prove his innocence and the available DNA and other forensic crime-scene evidence does not match him.
They did it anyway.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/24/missouri-execution-marcellus-williams-lisha-gayle/75298897007/
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“The execution of an innocent person is the most extreme manifestation of Missouri’s obsession with finality over truth, justice and humanity.”
— Tricia Rojo Bushnell of the Midwest Innocence Project and Marcellus Williams‘ lawyer.
Susan Larson ♀️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈#Trial over #genderaffirmingcare #Ban set to begin Monday
The #ACLUofMissouri's #lawsuit against #Governor #MikeParson will enter the #trial #phase on Monday in the case of #NoeVParson.
https://abc17news.com/news/2024/09/23/trial-over-gender-affirming-care-set-to-begin-monday/
Trial over gender-affirming care set to begin Monday - ABC17NEWS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The ACLU of Missouri's lawsuit against Governor Mike Parson will enter the trial phase on Monday in the case of Noe v. Parson. The suit, announced in July 2023 is led by the ACLU of Missouri along with Lambda Legal and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. The lawsuit hopes to block
Jote 🏳️🌈 
Sometimes I still think back to the #2022 and that time the #governor #MikeParson was trying to #sue a #journalist for viewing the #html of an education #website and also was claiming the "damages" from that #hack was going to cost the #taxpayers 50 million to fix.
(Basically they fucked up and put the #SSN of #teachers in html source on a public website, encoded with #base64
I wonder if that man still is as fucking stupid.