You are receiving this email because you signed to save Marcellus' life last year at a pivotal moment. Now, with Greitens' resignation set for Friday, Marcellus faces another one of those moments. Contact Greitens' office now and demand that he commute the sentence of Marcellus Williams. Share the demand for justice for Marcellus with your network using #RallyforMarcellus. Call: (573) 751-3222 Email form: https://governor.mo.gov/get-involved/contact-the-governors-office Our partners at the NAACP will host a press conference tomorrow morning at the Missouri State Capitol at 10 a.m., calling on Gov. Greitens to spare Marcellus. From our friend Keith Rose with the National Lawyers Guild - St. Louis: "In 2003, on his second-to-last day in office and while facing criminal corruption charges that would soon lead to his own imprisonment, Illinois’s Republican Governor George Ryan took the bold step of granting clemency to every person on or waiting to be sent to Illinois’s death row, and he also granted outright pardons to four men on death row. Ryan used his final speech as governor to declare that after a close review of the facts he had found the criminal justice system was too 'flawed' to provide enough confidence to allow for a punishment as irreversible as execution. 'I still believe the death penalty is a proper response to heinous crimes,' Gov. Ryan said. 'But I believe that it has to be where we don't put innocent people to death.' Fifteen years later, and with his own legal troubles behind him, Ryan is well remembered for his actions in abolishing the unjust and flawed death penalty in Illinois. This final act of clemency has squarely become a major aspect of Ryan’s legacy. And Gov. Ryan was not alone. In 1970, Arkansas’s Republican Governor Winthrop Rockefeller commuted the sentence of every death row inmate in that state. In 1986, Governor Toney Anaya did the same for New Mexico, and Governor Dick Celeste did so in Ohio in 1990. — Yesterday afternoon Missouri Governor Eric Greitens announced that he will resign from office at the end of the week. Currently on the Governor’s desk sits the case of Marcellus Williams, a man who has been on death row since 2001 for a 1998 murder in St. Louis County. Recent DNA analysis that was not available at the time of the original trial excludes Marcellus as the killer and seems to point toward his actual innocence in the case. On August 22, 2017, just hours before Marcellus was to be put to death, Gov. Greitens stayed the execution in light of the new DNA evidence. The governor appointed a board to look into the facts of the case. That board is next scheduled to meet on June 5, but by then Gov. Greitens will no longer be in office and able to act. Gov. Greitens must use his remaining time in office to stand on the right side of history and the right side of justice and give clemency to Marcellus Williams for the crime that DNA evidence shows he did not commit." This is a moment. Contact Greitens' office now. Demand justice for Marcellus. #RallyforMarcellus. #MarcellusWilliams Call: (573) 751-3222 Email form: https://governor.mo.gov/get-involved/contact-the-governors-office