Interfaith advocates urge clemency for 'death row imam' a day before his execution
Marcellus Williams in prison in Missouri. (Photo courtesy of the Marcellus Williams legal team)
Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, an imam at Missouri’s Potosi Correctional Center, was executed on Tuesday, even as his lawyers and advocates continued to argue his trial was plagued with racial bias and procedural errors.
The Missouri Supreme Court met Monday to discuss the arguments in Williams’s case, a day before his execution.
Both the Innocence Project and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had been urging the public to contact Governor Parson’s office in Missouri to stay the execution.
