Maryam Amir – Marcellas Williams
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The speaker discusses the charged person in a murder trial and their last words, suggesting they may have been convicted and put on death row for 20 years. They also mention the victim's family's claims of racial bias and the speaker's final statement, which is recognized as the victim's final testament.
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From a spiritual perspective, would you question if
you were wrongfully convicted and put on death
row for 20 years?
What would your last words be?
Marcellus Williams, our brother, may Allah have mercy
on him, was just murdered today.
He was convicted wrongfully 20 years ago, even
though forensic evidence did not match him and
there were no leads in his case until
months after the murder of the victim took
place.
The husband put a $10,000 reward out
and there was an informant who came to
claim that reward.
The victim's family themselves did not want him
to be executed.
There was racial bias from the jury and
yet despite all of this, his last words
that he wrote, his final testament that he
wrote, was all praise to Allah in every
situation.
Exclamation mark, exclamation mark.