Breaking: State of Georgia to Kill Troy Davis Tonight
Posted: September 21, 2011 Filed under: PLUB Pro-Life-Until-Birth, Psychopaths in charge, racism, SCOTUS, U.S. Politics | Tags: death penalty, Georgia, injustice, SCOTUS, Troy Davis 31 Comments
I just heard on MSNBC that Troy Davis will be executed in half an hour. That will be around 11:10 Eastern time. From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
JACKSON, Ga. — The Supreme Court late Wednesday rejected an 11th-hour request to block the execution of Troy Davis, who convinced hundreds of thousands of people but not the justice system of his innocence in the murder of an off-duty police officer.
The court did not comment on its order late Wednesday, four hours after receiving the request. Davis’ execution had been set to begin at 7 p.m., but the high court’s decision was not issued until after 10 p.m.
Though Davis’ attorneys say seven of nine key witnesses against him have disputed all or parts of their testimony, state and federal judges have repeatedly ruled against granting him a new trial. As the court losses piled up Wednesday, his offer to take a polygraph test was rejected and the pardons board refused to give him one more hearing.
A video of Troy Davis’ sister speaking about his case:
UPDATE: Troy Davis died by lethal injection of animal tranquilizers at 11:08PM.
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CNN is reporting that Mr. Davis has been murdered by the state of Georgia. Appalling. Repellant. Despicable.
Executing innocent people is where we are right now. The worst offender is the front runner for one of the major parties and THE PRESIDENT wouldn’t stop it and I just hope the pope says no wine and crackers for Clarence.
I know this is raycist, but he is a almost probably innocent black man who has claimed innocence for decades, has the Pope, Tutu,and even an expresident on his side, and the “1st Black President” doesn’t step in???? WTF???????
We simply do not live in a civilized or even moral country.
Oh man, I thought they gave him a week stay of execution. I am so disgusted. I can’t believe this shit.
Evidently making sure the system isn’t questioned is more important than making sure some one is actually guilty of a crime.
Amnesty International: China, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, & U.S lead the world in carrying out the most death sentences http://t.co/4s9GT3ku
The culture of selective life strikes again.
The victim:
http://m.examiner.com/exAtlanta/db_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=dX5De1Os&full=true#display
“Every time you Google Mark MacPhail, you get nothing but links about Troy Davis.
Google: Mark MacPhail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_MacPhail and you get “Troy Davis Case.”
Google, “Obituary for Mark MacPhial and you get a list of stories about Davis.
The Fraternal Order of Police honored Mark at a meeting in 2009. FOP President Carlton Stallings says it’s important that the MacPhail family also has support.
“Mark MacPhail was a hero,” Stallings proclaimed, “defending the people of Savannah and Chatham County and gave his life doing that. The family has had to relive that for the last twenty years.”
Mary Henry was also at that conference. Henry started a Facebook page honoring MacPhail. She wants people not to forget the sacrifice MacPhail made.
“I felt like no one was paying attention to the hero of the story.”
Most by now know about the events of that night; but it is time to think about Mark MacPhail, the army volunteer, the son, the husband, the father, and the police officer gunned down even before he reached the prime of his life.”
So how does killing a likely innocent man add value to this man’s death 22 years ago?
Judges disagreed with you.
Trial by Fire
Did Texas execute an innocent man?
by David Grann September 7, 2009
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann#ixzz1YeSDjsUG
Since 1973, over 130 people have been released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. In 2003 alone, 10 wrongfully convicted defendants were released from death row.
There was no hard evidence in this case at all. Try reading up on the innocence project too. There’s hundreds of other cases that have now been overturned due to DNA evidence.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-death-row
That’s the best you can do?
I am just trying to remind liberals/progressives who call MacPhail’s mother a killer who was the real victim. At least Davis got to have a final statement and say goodbye to his family, MacPhail did not get to do that he got shot in the head trying to help. You say Davis got killed like an animal, so how would you say MacPhail died.
He died in the line of duty doing his job and his killer is likely wandering around free.
The mother is obviously being eaten alive by poisonous emotions to sit and chat all day at a photo of a person dead 22 years ago. To read her words after the Parole board hearing is to read the words of a woman with serious inner demons in a self-created hell realm. Any one that eaten up by poisonous emotions to say that killing another human being would bring her peace of mind and state she was happy that they listened to her calls for execution is not some one I feel sympathy for. It’s some one who is pitiable and pathetic for such sickness. Her call for real justice would’ve likely led to finding the truth. Instead, she listened to demons instead of angels. Her calls for murder caused murder. Pure and simple. I didn’t say Davis was killed like an animal so don’t put words in my mouth. Murder is murder. Calling for murder is murder. I’m not saying this as any political statement from any political vantage point. It’s a statement from a Buddhist Clergy member. It comes from the teachings of Buddha and my teachers. All killing of sentient beings is wrong. Both deaths were wrongful deaths.
I think calling for murder when the mechanism is in place to make it a reality may be murder, or close to it. However, it strikes me that calling for murder when there is no chance of it actually happening is just…calling for murder, not murder itself.
This is how I found out, in an email from amnesty:
Not In My Name Pledge – Amnesty International USA
What is amazing to me the very often the “pro-life” idiots are also pro-death penalty — the more executions the happier they are.
When there is NO forensic evidence to support a death penalty — and only a whole lot of “eye witnesses” who were psychologically manipulated by the cops — how the hell can this happen in the age of TV CSI?
Georgia has a different system of justice.
Yes there was a murder victim — and now there is a second murder victim.
The mama of the first victim is the defacto killer of tonight’s victim. She has bloody hands — Karma will be coming for her.
The pro-life junkies are only pro-life when you’re in a woman’s womb. After that? You’re on your own.
My advice to all fetuses: stay as long as you can because the world has turned mean and ugly, a place where justice and decency has lost all meaning. Only the machine and its grinding gears count now!
Its fishing: Throw them back when they are too little, snatch them when they are older……
Governor Ryan and Capital Punishment —
“. . . under Ryan’s governorship, 13 people were released from jail after appealing their convictions based on new evidence. Ryan called for a commission to study the issue, while noting, “I still believe the death penalty is a proper response to heinous crimes… But I believe that it has to be where we don’t put innocent people to death.”
The issue had garnered the attention of the public when a death row inmate, Anthony Porter, who had spent 15 years on death row, was within two days of being executed when his lawyers won a stay on the grounds that he may have been mentally disabled. He was ultimately exonerated with the help of a group of student journalists at Northwestern University who had uncovered evidence that was used to prove his innocence. In 1999, Porter was released, charges were subsequently dropped, and another person, Alstory Simon, confessed and pleaded guilty to the crime of which Porter had been erroneously convicted.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ryan#Capital_punishment
You know, I was at the funeral today for a Sheriff’s Deputy. There must have been at least 200+ officers and representatives of police and sheriff departments across the state of Georgia.
It is surreal to think that as we buried one Georgia deputy, killed in the line of duty as he responded to a domestic violence call…that later the same day, a man would be executed for the death of another Georgia police office, who was killed 20 years ago.
There is no real justice in either case.
The only facts I see are that my friend is gone…and that there was way too much doubt to justify the killing of Troy Davis.
Both of which make me furious…and both of which are not fair and right.
It must be mind numbing — that final good-bye to someone too young. And then to learn about the deliberate murder of another human being when it could have been prevented is barbaric.
I tell you northwestrain, it was unimaginable. I wrote this down when it was over and we had walked back to the car:
There was silence, quiet hot silence. The short drizzle did not cool the air down, it made it more thick and difficult to breathe. The hot pavement reacted by releasing a thin mist of steam that you could see rising in the sunlight. I think I heard the gun shots of the honor guard, I think I heard the bugle play Taps, a bit off key, sounding like a Dali painting, melting and twisted in that hot sun. Surreal. Perhaps there was a man in a kilt playing bag pipes. I think I heard that piercing tone of sadness somewhere in the humid atmosphere. But then, a loud thumping. The sound of the large blades as they cut through the air. The propeller spinning out the rhythm of our heartbeats as we stood in the September sun. The loudness, the whipping of the steel, as the life flight helicopter buzzed the funeral on top of the hill. It went around twice, as if one circle was not quite enough and then it was gone. The only sound I could hear was my own heart pounding as sweat rolled down the back of my neck, and I could feel the perspiration on my forehead.Then the silence again, void stark and empty…when a light breeze came down the mountain across the pasture. The quick snap as the wind hit the flags and they stood to attention…straight out and strong.
Troy Davis’ final words:
Chilling.
This murder reminds me of the movie — “The long green mile”
“In a Louisiana nursing home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb (Dabbs Greer) begins to cry while watching the film Top Hat. His elderly friend, Elaine, shows concern for him and Paul tells her that the film reminded him of when he was a corrections officer in charge of Death Row inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The cell block Paul (Tom Hanks) worked long time ago it was called the “Green Mile” by the guards because the condemned prisoners walking to their execution are said to be walking “the last mile” to the electric chair, in this case crossing a stretch of faded lime-green linoleum.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_(film)
It sure is Wonk, chilling…
Troy Davis Executed | Troy Davis Death | Video | Mediaite
words of the weinie in chief.
If not now WHEN? A NO is better than a non answer.
Sort of like the way he voted “present” rather than yes or no — back when he was in the Illinois Senate.
NOT appropriate?? WTF is appropriate?? Is EVERYTHING above his payscale????? God I don’t give a shit if a Teabagger is elected, I will work my ass off to get this nothing out of office…