Tara Setmayer joins Katie Phang to discuss Project 2025, an ultraconservative agenda drafted by the Heritage Foundation, meant to guide the next Republican White House in an agenda that includes ambitious plans to revive and expand the federal death penalty.
On Tuesday evening, Marcellus Williams will be strapped to a gurney at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. He will be allowed to offer his last words. Barring a last-minute intervention by Missouri’s governor or the courts, he’ll then be injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs that will end his life. Williams, who was convicted in August 2001 for the brutal stabbing murder of Felicia Gayle Picus, may very well be innocent.
” But the latter is precisely what happened. On Sept. 12, Hilton ruled that “there is no basis for a court to find that Williams is innocent, and no Court has made such a finding.” Thus, Hilton concluded, the death sentence verdict must be carried out — even though he had agreed to the reduced sentence of life without parole just the month before.
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