Davis writes: "The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me."
Troy Davis, seen here in 1991, will be executed tonight. (photo: AP)
A Message From Troy Davis
21 September 11
Despite seven of the nine witnesses against him recanting and growing doubt about his conviction, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles decided Tuesday against clemency for Mr. Davis. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection tonight at 7 p.m. EDT. -- JPS/RSN
he struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me. I'm in good spirits and I'm prayerful and at peace. But I will not stop fighting until I've taken my last breath."
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I'm sick of the perverted use of religion by so-called "Christians" to do harm to anyone they decide deserves it. Who ARE these people?
A=FUC*ING=MEN!!!!!!
They are EVIL & SOUL-LESS!
Trust me on this one, notiall; the evil individuals who collectively made this decision are NOT CHRISTIANS.
This is yet another reason for millions to mobilize and demand an end to this kind of injustice and inhumanity.
All the Rick Perry's in this country need to be stopped and made accountable.
It's no longer the country I grew up in. I'm ashamed to be an "Amurican".
Why is no one with the power to intervene stepping forward to stop this insanity??
Georgia would have hollered, "SOCIALISM & STATES' RIGHTS!" What a tragedy!
Can we get some restrction on capital punishment so that it only applies to our high level war criminals (where the evidence is rock solid)?
http://www.schr.org/action/resources/corrections_officials_sign_on_for_troy_davis
Let's imagine him being granted the miracle he deserves.
''all the criminals in the coats and the ties,are free to drink martini's and watch the sun rise,while rueben sits like buddha in a 10 foot cell,an innocent man in a living hell'' Bob Dylan
It is readily apparent from the comments previously made that most people do not understand what is required to prove a person guilty of a criminal offense.
The law requires a person be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Not beyond all doubt,congectur ed doubt or any doubt but reasonable doubt.
In this case,the Georgia Parole Board could believe that even with the missing evidence there is sufficient evidence to determine Troy Davies guilty of the crime charged. This decision could be reached,I'm not saying it was, without regard to Mr. Davies skin color.
As long as we have the death penalty, this problem will not be solved as every case where groups determine a person's guilt or innocence, can lead to different interpretations of the facts.
This difference in interpretation of facts will in and of itself cause innocent people to be put to death. The only way to prevent this from happening is to abandon the death penalty.
Corrections Officials Advocate for Troy Davishttp://www.schr.org/action/resources/corrections_off icials_sign_on_ for_troy_davis
The only one who hasn't recanted is the person who's been named as the murderer.
Just the fact that you said "maybe" justifies granting Davis a stay untilhis guilt or innocence can be definitively established.
Most murders are done by the criminal in a highly emotional state with little time for thought, judgment and restraint to prevail. The civilized society however has long thought of and planned to kill the criminal. This goes for guilty or not guilty. To me, capital punishment is barbaric and only teaches society that killing of another human being is ok.
I believe Troy Davis is innocent and there was no reason not to grant him another trial. Even the ones who thought he might be guilty have changed their story and the courts won't even hear it.
I don't know what kind of justice system we have anymore. I hear of more unfair practices than fair ones. I'm for GOD being the Judge to ALL.
I am a citizen of Rick Perry's Texas. We call him "the Ricktator" here. I have never heard of him ever "excusing a man from the death penalty." There have been stays granted but they have been granted by the Supreme Court.
If you have some sort of proof that Perry "excused a man in Texas from the death penalty" please post it so we can believe you. Otherwise it's fiction.
We executed Cameron Todd Willingham!! Perry was given a report prior to the execution from the country's foremost expert on arson who said that no arson occurred and therefore Willingham was innocent.
He fired the commissioner of the Texas Forensic Board which studied the case and was about to issue a finding that Willingham was innocent and appointed one of his good buddies as Commissioner to cover it up. When that didn't end it he got the Texas Attorney General, another good Republican buddy, to say that they could look at other cases but could no longer finish their work on the Cameron Todd Willingham case. But it will continue to come out over and over again.
Check out the song http://youtu.be/h4ZyuULy9zs -and weep anew at this latter-day lynching in a sterile prison death house.
Mr Davis' had the misfortune to be convicted in a Southern State -I've seen this up close as I described in another RSN posting and even as a white guy, I'd hate to be in jail in that brutal Bible Belt, Jimmy Carter's good efforts notwithstanding . I am deeply saddened at this offence to both man and whatever God you believe in. For Gawd's sake, they have already take twenty-odd years of his life: isn't that enough?
As in King Lear "Handy-Dandy, which the justice, which the thief"!
I wonder if Leonard Peltier and Mumiya Abu-Jamal are listening to all this?
The Death penalty is not unlike suicide: a "permanent solution to a temporary problem" (in the case of "reasonable doubt!).
Finally, in the UK, before the death penalty was abolished, a certain Martin Muschamp was hung for allegedly shooting a police officer but soon after, another man was arrested and convicted of the crime; a nice example of the finality of official fallibility!
is to be complicit in that injustice" Desmond Tutu
that this should be allowed to happen says so much about who we are as a people. shame!!!!
He said, "don't mourn, organize." I think Troy had much the same message. He wants us to rise up and stand up for him and those that the system unfairly accuses. We too can organize and fight this peacefully, with non-violence and constant protest.
Even supporters of Capital Punishment know that this is judicial murder. A stay of execution was the least a just society could have given this man. That they did not is a comment on our system of punishing murderers be they imagined or real.
Thanks for raising the matter of Troy Davis in your headlines. A learned legal analyst last night said that although some prosecution witnesses had recanted
some of the recantations were unreliable. There we are. In criminal justice the benefit of the doubt is given to the accused. The rush to execute should warn us that we are in the presence of what Michelle Alexander has called "The New Jim Crow". It is the same with Mumia Abu Jamal whose trial was substandard and riddled with violations..In 2008 a Native America,Leonard Peltier was denied parole after thirty years on death row. These three cases stand out for vengeance and not for justice. These three have not enjoyed the Protection Of The Law to which they are entitled. I appeal to Georgia. Do not allow your impatience result in an unintended lynching.
eusi Kwayana. Submitted by Jim Moreno
Obama at UN will have full mouth of Peace and Freedom - USA is SICK medieval SOCIETY.
Jim Crow in not gone. He dances in poison being injected into an black man's arm. Georgia should be ashamed. Jim Moreno
NAACP just spoke to Troy Davis's lawyer - no execution yet but also no confirmation of the stay!
* Davis was convicted on shaky evidence, since recanted by seven out of nine so-called "witnesses" and re-evaluated by the original jurors, poor and subsequently disproven ballistics+dire ct evidence of intimidation by what is gradually emerging as the the real killer!'
Anyway, who the Hell made you judge, jury and bloody executioner? Enjoying this little excursion into "Freedom for a few", are you?"
Have you followed and studied the case or are you just another bloody-minded medievalist who considers state-sanctioned death by whatever means they deem expeditious (Hung, drawn and quartered or lethal injection are pretty much linear equals if you look at history and context for getting rid of troublesome individuals).
O' yes, and have you considered the legal term "reasonable doubt" as already mentioned in preceding posts.?
Have you considered that the Death Penalty is a last resort for an easily misinterpreted criminal act and the really bad guys often go free (I mean, look at Dick Cheyney for a start!).
Finally, check out the UK case of "R vs Martin Muschamp".
The courtroom is not about justice, it is a chess game played out between those with over inflated egos, with a win at all cost approach, regardless of who gets hurt in the process.
Where justice is spelled.... JUST-US!
"Georgia, Georgia, no peace you'll find,
every time a black dies, I'll have Georgia on my mind!"
My arrangements to leave the "Fragmented States" begin today (they've been fermenting for a while), as the rest of the country seems to be following suit in mean-spiritedness (RSN folks and some others excepted).
Troy Davis is your Martin Muschamp (UK) and I hope he wasn't lynched in vain, as he himself hoped.
O' aye Georgia; -enjoy the 2012 Masters -I won't be watching!
There have been many innocent people executed through our "justice" system. The cumulative blatant disregard for the lives of people who don't belong to the privileged world of corporations and the wealthy has just created the critical mass to push the American people to the tipping point.
Please excuse and if this is still up will post when and if I find out the truth. Please forgive.
Lee
When I was l listening to Rick Perry and the tea party audience extol the virtues of executing people, I couldn't help wondering what an MRI of their brains would look like.
You will more than likely see an empty skull.
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