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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 07:11 AM Oct 2015

State of Missouri to Execute Innocent Autistic Man Oct. 6, Ferguson Prosecutor Responsible

http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/10/01/state-of-missouri-to-execute-innocent-autistic-man-oct-6-ferguson-prosecutor-responsible/

Missouri plans to execute an innocent autistic man October 6th. Ferguson prosecutor Robert McCulloch and his team presided over the case. The same St. Louis County Police Department charged with brutality and overt criminality in the Ferguson debacle, helped secure the arrest and coerce testimony leading to state sanctioned murder. Additionally, the Missouri Supreme Court has refused a defense request, to hear the case or appoint a special master to review the case for any prosecutorial improprieties. At this point, the only appeal venue is Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. Governor Nixon has the power to ‘stay’ the execution pending independent investigation of police and prosecutorial mis-conduct regarding coerced confessions and suborned perjury of prosecution witnesses. To date, Governor Nixon has refused to respond.

On a more personal note; the man scheduled to die October 6th is Kimber Edwards.

Kimber Edwards was charged and convicted of murder and armed criminal action carrying the death penalty in 2002. He is scheduled to die in the execution chamber October 6th. The case was under the jurisdiction of Ferguson Prosecutor, Robert McCulloch of St. Louis County. McCulloch’s prosecutors claimed that in 2000, Edwards hired Orthell Wilson to murder his ex-wife, Kimberly Cantrell, in order to evade criminal prosecution regarding delinquent child support payments.

Allegations have been made accusing St. Louis County Police of coercing a confession from Edwards, and forcing a plea deal on the actual murderer in return for witness testimony against Edwards. The man who recently signed a formally witnessed affidavit recanting his previous testimony and confessing to the murder was that same prosecution witness, Orthell Wilson. Wilson claims he was threatened by police with the death penalty if he didn’t accept the plea which included alleged perjured testimony against Kimber Edwards. Wilson is white and Edwards is black. No actual physical evidence has ever linked Edwards to the crime.
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State of Missouri to Execute Innocent Autistic Man Oct. 6, Ferguson Prosecutor Responsible (Original Post) eridani Oct 2015 OP
Thank goodness the governor is democratic yeoman6987 Oct 2015 #1
No, he won't Bettie Oct 2015 #2
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. Thank goodness the governor is democratic
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 08:06 AM
Oct 2015

He will stay the death penalty. If it was a republican, he'd be gone October 6th.

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