Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, killed by lethal injection days after state’s key witness recanted critical testimony

Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, 46, killed by lethal injection days after state’s key witness recanted critical testimony

South Carolina executed a man on death row on Friday, days after the key witness for the prosecution came forward to say he 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 was 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.

  • DudeImMacGyver
    14·
    2 months ago

    You lost me at executing the people who were observing the execution, wtf?

    • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      I didn’t say execute any of them? Holy hell, this damn thing is about how the death penalty ends up killing Innocents, why the fuck would we execute them?

      • DudeImMacGyver
        4·
        2 months ago

        Edit: the more I think about this? The executioner should be charged with murder. The witnesses to the execution with conspiracy as well. It needs to stop. This guy knew until his last moment of consciousness he didn’t shoot that woman. This wasn’t just a state murder - this was a lynching.

        OK, I misread it, but still though going after anyone who saw the execution is ridiculous and the gallery often includes family members of the person being executed. You want to charge them with conspiracy? Really?