Shadee Elmasry – Why Did Allah Let Marcellus Khalifa Williams Get Executed
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or criminal act. The jury is comprised of a number of black individuals, and the trial is a function of the victim's family's deeds.
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This is a really sad cover of the
Innocence Project this morning, at least the Marcellus
Williams case where time left till execution 0000.
The Innocence Project uses DNA evidence to prove
objectively that murderers on death throw are innocent.
The Innocence Project is one of the best
organizations to do this because of the objectivity
that they use as evidence.
They have a page here on our brother
who passed away as a Muslim, Marcellus Williams
was scheduled for September 24th, there is no
reliable evidence proving that he committed the crime
for which he was sentenced to death.
The state destroyed or corrupted the evidence that
could conclusively prove his innocence as well as
the available DNA and other forensic crime scene
evidence.
It doesn't match him, says the Innocence Project.
This regards a 1988 murder of a woman.
There is far too much uncertainty in this
case to allow Mr. Williams to be executed,
particularly when the victim's family believes life without
parole is the appropriate sentence.
Clearly, the Innocence Project is alluding to the
fact that that isn't even right.
Because if it's that speculative, no it's not
even speculative, evidence has been destroyed, you have
a mistrial, you have no case.
In fact, the destroyers of the evidence should
be taken to trial, tampering.
All right, let's take a look at the
jury.
Jury of 12 people, black man accused of
killing a white woman.
His jury was comprised of how many white
people?
What would you say, 6, 5, 7, 8,
11, 11 out of 12.
The prosecutor whose institutional practice of racial discriminatory
justice, jury selection, racially discriminatory jury selection has
been widely documented.
Successfully, he removed 6 of 7 qualified black
jurors with preemptory challenges.
A recent study of 400 death eligible cases
in St. Louis over 27 years revealed racial
disparity in the use of the death penalty
based upon the race of the victim.
People who were convicted were 3.5 times
more likely to receive the death penalty if
the victim was white, as in this case,
compared to if the victim was black.
During his 23 years in jail, in prison,
Mr. Williams devoted much of his time studying
Islam and writing poetry.
He serves as the Imam for Muslim prisoners
at Potosi Correctional Center and is known as
the Khalifa, meaning the leader in Arabic.
So his Arabic Muslim name is Khalifa.
He has an exemplary prison record, widely respected
within the prison community and beyond.
And again, this is an old article, it's
a week old.
His final statement, all praise be to Allah
in every situation.
Look, why does these things happen from our
standpoint?
Allah wants a level for somebody that they
cannot achieve with their own actions.
That's simply how we understand these things.
How can an innocent man be put to
jail?
First of all, Allah does not value this
dunya the way we do.
That's one thing.
The only scorecard that Allah cares for is
our akhira.
What is our day of judgment looking like?
What is our heaven and * looking like?
For Allah Ta'ala, nothing matters except that.
So in order to get you in a
greater level than you would have ever attained
by your deeds, this is what it takes,
then this is what Allah Ta'ala does.
And hence the greats have suffered, many greats
have suffered.
Prophet Yahya was beheaded, and he's a prophet.
He was beheaded.
Subhanallah.
He faced execution three times.
He got a reprieve in 2015 and 2017.
All his last ditch efforts were futile.
Parson, he's the guy, he's the governor who's
just after him.
I don't know what is he, what does
he gain from this?
What do they gain from executions?
For a lot of these things, it's functionally,
it makes no difference whether he's alive in
prison or whether he is dead.
He's the same minimized threat that he otherwise
would be.
But you've got voters out there who are
eager to see a black man killed and
add that he's a Muslim now.
That's awesome, right?
Like for a lot of these people, that's
what they get excited about.
We get to kill a black Muslim.
100%.
And so Parson, he just won his next
election.
This was a very smart political strategy.
And look, if you're callous about human life
and you don't care about people, then yeah,
this is an easy price to pay for
you.
Okay, yeah.
Killed one more guy.
Yeah, yeah.
Subhanallah.
Political.
Is it in a, what's the governor's, when
is that cycle?
I'll see right now.
Missouri.
Terrible situation there, but Allah give him Jannah.
That's all we can say.
Allah give him Jannah.
2024.
Okay.
It's election season for the guy.
That's it?
There's your example.
It's election season for the guy, for Parson.
Well, this stuff happens for a reason.
And Allah wanted for him something else, something
better than this dunya.
And that if he was made innocent and
released, he would not have attained this.
But it's all over.
Every news outlet has something on it.
And every news outlet shows how shady, how
corrupt the whole case has been.
Subhanallah.