Missouri Supreme Court allows Marcellus Williams execution to proceed

The Missouri Supreme Court will not stop the execution of Marcellus Williams. In a unanimous decision handed down Monday just hours after oral arguments, judges said they saw no reason to send the case back to a lower court to hear claims from Williams’ attorneys that prosecutors in the original trial had improperly struck jurors solely because of their race, or that prosecutors had destroyed potential DNA evidence by touching the murder weapon with their bare hands.

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