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There are not many individuals in U.S. history who have run for president and who have also fought to keep innocent people in prison.  In fact, there is only one.  And that individual is Kamala Harris.  This puts her by herself in her very own special class of evil presidential candidates. 

Regarding Jamal Trulove, one of her several victims, she knowingly sent an innocent/framed person to prison.  Regarding Daniel Larsen, another of her victims and perhaps even worse, she said, "Even if Danny was innocent, his conviction should not be reversed because he waited too long to file his petition," according to the California Innocence Project, and she fought to keep him in prison.  She gets extra-evil bonus points for going on a podcast and hypocritically admitting to committing crimes herself—and then cackling about it à la Cruella de Vil.

But she is not alone in her depths of evil that rivals Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, or Osama bin Laden.  The reason for such an extreme comparison is that—unlike those three individuals—these so-called purveyors of "law" did all these heinous acts in the perverse name of justice.  Rest assured; there is no shortage of satanic beings like Harris that do daily in our legal system what she has done.

In fact, the list is quite lengthy.  Marcellus Williams, a Missouri man, is another victim.  He will finally have a hearing about his innocence claims.  The 55-year-old death row prisoner was convicted in the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle during a robbery of her suburban St. Louis home.  It comes not a moment too soon for Williams, who Missouri plans to put to death in September.  It’s not the first time he has faced such a deadline.

In 2017, Williams was hours away from execution when the governor granted him a reprieve so a panel could evaluate his innocence claims, including DNA testing that wasn’t available at the time of the crime.  The testing excluded Williams as the source of DNA found on the murder weapon, according to his lawyers.

Last year, a new governor disbanded the panel without releasing its findings.  A lot changed between 2017 and 2023.  In 2021, the Missouri legislature passed a law that allows local prosecutors to file a motion to throw out convictions of people who they believe to be innocent.  Longtime St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch—who believed fervently in Williams’ guilt—was also replaced by Wesley Bell, who ordered a review of the case and was troubled by what he found.  Bell cited “clear and convincing evidence” of Williams’s innocence in a motion to vacate the conviction, a move made possible by the 2021 law.

Despite all this, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey still opposes Williams’ release, something at which he’s had plenty of practice this summer in other cases of innocence.  For example, he also battled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore over the innocence case of Chris Dunn, who spent thirty-four years in prison after being convicted of a 1990 St. Louis murder.

The two eyewitnesses connecting him to the crime—who were both under the age of fifteen at the time—have since recanted.  Similar to Williams’s case, Gore filed a motion to toss Dunn’s conviction under the 2021 state law.  Judge Jason Sengheiser agreed with Gore’s view of the case earlier this summer, concluding that “in light of new evidence, no juror, acting reasonably, would have voted to find Dunn guilty,” and ordered Dunn’s release.

Dunn was getting ready to walk out of prison late last month when a challenge from Bailey stopped his release.  As Dunn’s wife put it to The Washington Post, “He was literally fifty feet from freedom.”  Dunn had to wait another week until the state supreme court ruled that Bailey didn’t have the authority to hold him.

Bailey also fought to keep Sandra Hemme in prison this summer after the courts overturned her murder conviction, forty-three years into a life sentence.  There was no evidence linking Hemme to the crime aside from a confession that she offered while heavily sedated and in a “malleable mental state,” according to the judge who reviewed and tossed her conviction.

Joseph Amrine is another victim who spent nearly a third of his life in prison condemned to die before the state’s case against him began to evaporate.  In 2001, prosecutors under then Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon pushed for an execution date anyway, arguing two years later before the state’s Supreme Court that Amrine had already tried and failed proving his innocence through lower courts.

In one exchange, Justice Laura Denvir Stith asked Assistant Attorney General Frank Jung, “Are you suggesting.....even if we find that Mr. Amrine is actually innocent, he should be executed?”

“That is correct, your honor,” Jung said.  Amrine was eventually exonerated and freed.

This post focused on just a handful of criminals—the real ones who fought to keep innocent people in prison and, in at least once instance, to murder someone—in California and Missouri.  However, the number of such instances of nefarious conduct by similar so-called humans could fill entire volumes, if not entire library bookshelves.  No doubt remains that Satan has an extra-special place reserved especially for them.