Executing a Black man in Missouri who says he was wrongfully convicted would amount to a “horrible miscarriage of justice,” the president of the NAACP said in a letter Wednesday calling on the governor to halt the execution planned for next week.
Prosecutors want to vacate the conviction of Marcellus Williams over doubts about evidence in the case, NAACP President Derrick Johnson pointed out in the letter obtained by The Associated Press. Relatives of the woman who was killed also oppose the execution.