The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday. He was almost certainly innocent, and his own prosecutors, as well as the family of his alleged victim, had sought to spare his life. The St. Louis Prosecuting Attorney’s Office urged the courts not to kill Williams, arguing that his conviction was fatally undermined by a startling lack of evidence, racial bias at trial, and the results of recent DNA testing. But the Supreme Court ignored these pleas: The justices refused to stay his

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