Urgent Action
MULTIPLE CONCERNS AS MISSOURI EXECUTION SET
Marcellus Williams, aged 48, is due to be executed in Missouri on 22 August for
a 1998 murder. He
maintains his innocence of the crime. An African American, he was tried before
an almost all-white
jury. Two of the four federal judges to review his case have concluded that he
received
constitutionally inadequate representation at his sentencing.
Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:
* Calling on the governor to stop the execution of Marcellus Williams and to
commute his death
sentence;
* Noting the circumstantial nature of the case, the lack of forensic or
eyewitness evidence
against the defendant, and the reliance on the notoriously unreliable form
of evidence,
jailhouse informant testimony;
* Expressing concern at the prosecutor’s dismissal of African Americans
during jury selection, and
that the jury never heard mitigating evidence of the defendant’s background
of severe abuse,
poverty and mental disability
Friendly reminder: If you send an email, please create your own instead of
forwarding this one!
Contact below official by 22 August, 2017:
Office of Governor Eric Greitens
PO Box 720, Jefferson City, MO 65102, USA
Fax: +1 573 751 1495
Email (via website):
https://governor.mo.gov/get-involved/contact-the-governors-office (Note: if you
do not have an address in the US, select “outside the US” where it asks for
your state, and write in
“00000” where it asks for your zip code)
Twitter: @EricGreitens
Salutation: Dear Governor
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