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this morning. After following the internal links to the original court documents, however, one finds mind-boggling evidence not just casting doubt on Williams’s guilt but almost completely proving his innocence. The conscience reels at the thought that he could be executed at 6 p.m. Central time., St.
“The crime scene was rife with physical evidence,” Bell wrote. “The weapon — a kitchen knife — was left lodged in Ms. Gayle’s neck. Bloody shoeprints were present near a knife sheath in the kitchen, in the hallway leading to the front foyer, and on the rug near Ms. Gayle’s body. Bloody fingerprints were found along the wall. And hairs believed to belong to the perpetrator were collected from Ms. Gayle’s t-shirt, her hands, and the floor.”) matched Williams.
If there is DNA on the bloody handle of a weapon that remains embedded in the victim’s body, and the DNA is absolutely not that of the man convicted of the murder, then it is almost physically impossible for the convict actually to have committed the crime. When this is combined with testing of “hairs believed to belong to the perpetrator were collected from Ms.
The main testimony tying Williams to the murder came from an utterly unreliable source — a multiple-recidivist criminal offender for more than 30 years, all across the country, one whose story about Williams changed with almost every retelling. “Despite the inconsistencies of Cole’s story or his lengthy criminal history, use of drugs, and mental illness,” Bell wrote, “police apparently looked only for evidence to support what he told them.
The other testimony came from Williams’s girlfriend at the time, who was a drug-using prostitute. Police “told her she was guilty of withholding evidence if she did not cooperate” with their attempts to nail Williams for the crime. The girlfriend’s story, by the way, didIn sum, this isn’t a matter of stopping an execution because of mere procedural error. Marcellus Williams is innocent of that crime. The nation’s high court must not let a state kill an innocent man.
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