ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH: Former death row inmates slam Missouri AG’s effort to execute Marcellus Williams
"Death row inmates who were later freed because they were found innocent blasted Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey Thursday for attempting to block a hearing that could help free a man convicted in the 1998 killing a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter..."
"The execution of an innocent person is an irreversible travesty that should never be accepted as an inevitable outcome,” [Herman] Lindsey said. “No one should be rushing to kill an innocent man..."
"Death row exoneree Joseph Amrine, who served 17 years on death row before being exonerated, told reporters the state has nothing to gain by killing the wrong person."
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