The state of Missouri is set to execute Marcellus, even though literally NO ONE with a stake in the outcome of the case—not even the prosecutor nor the victim’s family— wants him to die. Learn More Here

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    There’s additional context that people might not be aware.

    He is Muslim.

    The state didn’t just murdered a Black man but murdered a Black Muslim man. And from the interview between Black Myths Podcast and an organizer trying to get him out, he was a devout Muslim too, serving as an imam for the Muslim inmates. This means that his jailers are also aware of his Muslim faith. Besides the US just being foundationally anti-Black, there is also an Islamophobic component to this as well, which will only intensify as the Zionist entity continues to collapse on itself.

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      1 month ago

      Becoming a priest doesn’t always abolish your past, but JFC how messed up do you have to be to execute one on shaky evidence? Imagine if this happened to a white preacher. Evangelicals would be foaming at the mouth at how “There’s a war on Jesus and Christianity!” It would fuel their persecution complex for decades.

      But since it’s a black Muslim, nothing will fundamentally change. This country is completely okay with killing sections of its population, so long as they aren’t straight, cishet WASPS. And even then, lol.