2 cops
Suspect had a knife. Only cops fired guns. Tally:
Suspect shot, hospitalized and unable to walk
Bystander grazed, stable
Cop shot, stable
Gregory Delpeche, 49, a bystander who was riding the subway to work, was also shot by a stray bullet, according to the Associated Press. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition where he underwent cranial surgery to reduce swelling from a bullet wound in his head.
Delpeche’s attorney, Keith White, told HuffPost on Saturday that his client is still in critical condition.
... Although the prosecuting office and victim’s family backed an agreement to have Williams avoid the death penalty, Missouri’s Republican attorney general, Andrew Bailey, has fought to allow the execution to proceed.
“The public doesn’t want this execution to move forward. The victim’s family doesn’t want this execution to move forward and the St Louis county prosecuting attorney’s office doesn’t want this execution to move forward,” said Jonathan Potts, one of Williams’s attorneys, in an interview on Monday. “The attorney general’s office, who had nothing to do with this whatsoever, are the ones who are trying to lead him to the death chamber. It’s pretty startling and extraordinary.”
South Carolina executed a man on death row on Friday, days after the key witness for the prosecution came forward to say he had lied at trial and the state was putting to death an innocent man.
Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, was killed by lethal injection, pronounced dead at 6.55pm, according to the Associated Press, which was one of several media witnesses to the execution.
His lawyers had filed emergency motions for a delay this week, citing new testimony suggesting he had been wrongfully convicted. But the state supreme court rejected the pleas and Henry McMaster, the Republican governor, announced just before the execution that he would not be granting clemency....
