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A Boring Dystopia
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If you put five people to death, but one is later discovered to have been completely innocent, would you still support the death penalty?
The US justice system is far from perfect, and even further from blind.
Innocent people are often railroaded by the justice system in order to close a case.
Hell, we apparently still execute people even if we find out they are completely innocent BEFORE they are executed.
Yup, Marcellus Williams was executed on September 24, 2024, after significant evidence of his innocence was well known. Even though the victim’s family had consistently said they did not want him to be executed, the Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey acted liked a one-man murderous mob and insisted that this innocent man be killed, after already being wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 24 years. He didn’t even want the evidentiary hearing to go forward. What legitimate reason would someone ever have to deny someone the right to show evidence of their innocence? It’s not the first time that asshole AG Andrew Bailey didn’t care about whether or not someone actually committed a crime.
There are few things that make me angrier and more afraid than someone who genuinely thinks they have the power to purposefully work against the truth when someone’s life is on the line.