A Day Before Scheduled Execution, U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Consider Marcellus Williams' Death Row Case

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : In a 73-page joint brief filed this weekend -- the latest effort to half his execution by lethal injection slated tomorrow, Sept. 24 at 6 p.m. CT -- the county prosecutors and defense lawyers agree there is no forensic evidence tying Williams to the 1998 stabbing death of Felicia Gayle.
45% : After additional DNA evidence came back this August, revealing that the fingerprints on the murder weapon matched that of the assistant prosecuting attorney and one of the investigators - both of whom ultimately admitted in affidavits that they had handled the knife without gloves ahead of William's 2001 trial, per the joint filing - county prosecutors and defense counsel entered an agreement Aug. 21 designed to take Williams off death row.
40% : Williams, who writes poetry and serves as the imam for Muslim prisoners at Potosi Correctional Center in Washington County, Mo., has not spoken publicly about his time on death row but released a set of poems to PEOPLE through his attorneys.

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