Despite attempts from hundreds of thousands of online petitioners, his attorney, the prosecutor, and even members of the victim’s family to commute his lethal injection, Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson and the Missouri Supreme Court denied Williams’ clemency on Monday. On Tuesday, hours before his scheduled execution, the U.S. Supreme Court also declined to stop it. The court’s three liberal justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – said they would have granted Williams a stay, but the sum of the Supreme Court did not, and they offered no explanation for the decision, as is customary in emergency docket cases. [...]
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