An execution [Content Warning]

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A US state has committed an execution of someone after they had spent twenty years on death row, despite the prosecutors and victim’s family all urging clemency ... 

I often don’t comment on individual executions, but there has been some worthwhile media commentary which - mostly - helps illustrate the problems of a state showing that it does not value life by committing executions (although not much commentary on the cruel and unusual punishment aspects of twenty years on death row - but small steps are necessary with the USA). See:

• “We Got A SCARY Preview of Trump’s Plan For Us”   https://youtu.be/hFpxhphaPlk   “Thoughts on Marcellus Williams and a look at people’s reactions”      

• “Marcellus Williams executed for murder of Felicia Gayle despite lawyers, prosecution, and others suggesting his innocence”   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-25/marcellus-williams-innocence-project-execution-missouri/104393460      

• “What to Know About the Execution of Death Row Inmate Marcellus Williams Amid Public Outcry”   https://time.com/7024354/marcellus-williams-execution-public-outcry/      

• “Missouri executes Marcellus Williams after two decades on death row”   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9p518j0nqo      

• “Why was Marcellus Williams executed? What to know about the Missouri case”   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/25/why-was-marcellus-williams-executed-what-to-know-about-the-missouri-case   “Marcellus Williams has been executed in Missouri, despite objections from prosecutors and though the family of the woman he allegedly murdered agreed to his life imprisonment”      
• “Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite prosecutors’ push to overturn conviction”   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams   “Williams long maintained his innocence and the killing was opposed by victim’s family, jurors and office that tried him”     
  

Some general commentary about executions are in: 

• “The death penalty: a breach of human rights and ethics of care”   https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)01004-8/fulltext      

• “Death penalty”   https://www.ohchr.org/en/topic/death-penalty      

• “Death Penalty”   https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/   and   “The Death Penalty – Your Questions Answered”   https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/death-penalty/the-death-penalty-your-questions-answered/      

• “Capital punishment”   https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capital_punishment&oldid=1247845790      
  

 

PS - my choice of the wording “committed an execution” is deliberate, and, I consider, more accurate than commonly used terminology

 

 

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In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

 

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