[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----MISSOURI

[Rick Halperin]

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

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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