Busta Rhymes is talking out after Marcellus Williams was executed on Tuesday night time (September 24) after spending greater than 20 years on demise row. 

Williams died by deadly injection on September 24 at 6 p.m. CT. He was convicted of the brutal homicide of journalist Felicia Gayle in August 1998.  

Williams maintained his innocence and had two earlier executions stayed. Nevertheless, an try to exonerate him based mostly on DNA proof failed, per a number of experiences. The U.S. Supreme Court docket denied a keep of execution amid an outpouring of help, together with from the native prosecutor from the workplace that convicted him.  

Hours earlier than the execution, Busta Rhymes shared a plea to save lots of Williams’ life, arguing his innocence. After the Supreme Court docket ruling, Busta made one other publish branding the execution an “Unfathomable Travesty.” He shared a picture of Williams alongside his last assertion that learn: “All Reward Be To Allah In Each State of affairs!!!” 

“An Unfathomable Travesty has transpired right this moment with the Demise of an Harmless Man,” Busta Rhymes wrote. “You didn’t get your Justice right here so be sure you serve your Justice from the place you might be Almighty.”  

The NAACP was amongst Williams’ supporters and described the execution as a lynching.  

“Tonight, Missouri lynched one other harmless Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson stated, per The Washington Put up. “When DNA proof proves innocence, capital punishment shouldn’t be justice — it’s homicide.” 

The St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Workplace convicted Williams however would later help his claims of innocence, agreeing there was no forensic proof linking him to the homicide.