NAACP Urges Missouri Governor To Stop Execution Of Black Death Row Inmate Planned For Next Week

By Melissa Noel ·Updated September 19, 2024

The NAACP is urgently calling on Missouri Governor Mike Parson to stop the execution of Marcellus Williams, a, a Black man who’s been on death row for years, maintaining his innocence. In an open letter, NAACP President Derrick Johnson and Missouri State Conference President Nimrod Chapel Jr. warned that executing Williams would be a “horrible miscarriage of justice” and a reflection of Missouri’s troubling racial past.

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Melissa Noel
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