[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 147 (Friday, September 20, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H5542]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           MARCELLUS WILLIAMS

  (Ms. BUSH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BUSH. Mr. Speaker, St. Louis and I rise today to say that State-
sanctioned violence has no place in a humane society.
  Next Tuesday, Marcellus ``Khaliifah'' Williams is scheduled to be 
executed for a crime he didn't commit. Despite credible evidence of 
Williams' innocence and mass scrutiny over the fairness of this trial, 
Missouri Governor Mike Parson and the courts have yet to stop an 
innocent man from being executed.
  Within the last four decades, only four individuals on death row have 
been exonerated in Missouri. Since 1973, at least 200 people have been 
exonerated from death row in the U.S.
  A 2014 study estimated that at least 4 percent of those sentenced to 
death are innocent, a majority of whom are Black and Brown.
  I am urging Governor Parson not to let another innocent man be 
murdered at the hands of the State. He must heed this call. As a proud 
cosponsor of the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act, Congress must 
also act. Let's end this racist, flawed, and inhumane practice once and 
for all.
  Save the life of this innocent man.

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