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Another Follow Up of the Day: Despite a slew of last-ditch efforts, including an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, death row inmate Troy Davis was executed by lethal injection at Georgia Diagnostic Prison near Jackson, Georgia, at precisely 11:08 PM tonight.
A moment of jubilation for supporters came and went as the Supreme Court temporarily delayed the execution so that it could issue its ruling. At around 10:20 PM it was officially announced: There would be no stay.
Doubts about Davis’s guilt stemming from potentially flawed ballistic evidence and the recantations of several witnesses who blamed police pressure on their initial statement were not enough to persuade neither Georgia’s Supreme Court nor its national counterpart to halt the execution of the man convicted in 1991 of murdering off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail.
An earlier request for an additional pardons board hearing was also denied, as was a request to allow Davis to take a polygraph test. “He has had ample time to prove his innocence,” said MacPhail’s widow Joan MacPhail-Harris, “and he is not innocent.”
The White House declined to comment, saying “it is not appropriate for the President of the United States to weigh in on specific cases.”
According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, Davis is the 29th inmate to be put to death by lethal injection since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1973. There are presently 99 men and one woman on Georgia’s death row.
[ajc / ap / reuters / @jaketapper / gdc / photo: ap via cbsnews.]
crying.
Fuck everything.
This was why I was worried to go out tonight. People would be angry. Some parts of downtown were apparently blocked off as protestors picketed for his life.
Despite my mom trying to figure out whether he was innocent or not (both of us don’t have much information) I have done some vague research on his case. Ultimately, I don’t agree with the death penalty. It’s such a flawed method of punishment and a way of dealing with ‘things’. With witnesses and such all so wishy-washy no one should be put to death. Too much doubt. Not enough evidence.
I hope I don’t wake up to the news reporting riots - which is what the police and such have been preparing for. They think riots might happen. I just don’t want the violence. :C
I believe the Death Penalty is valid,
but only if there is no doubt whatsoever that the person committed the crime.
If there’s even an inkling of a doubt, the person shouldn’t even be in prison in the first place. The law says that a person can be convicted only if there is no reasonable doubt in the jury’s eyes.
Georgia, and honestly, the entire South, needs to get out of its primitive ways of not only racism, but condemning those they don’t understand - Note the West Memphis Three.
But how can there ever be ‘no doubt whatsoever’? There is always doubt when dealing with people. Even if there’s only a fraction of a chance that the person in question is innocent, there is still the possibility. I don’t think anyone has the right to take someone else’s life, whether it be a private person or the government. And I don’t see how killing someone shows other people that killing people is wrong. Death sentence is statistically shown to have no effect on lowering the crime rate. It’s useless. It’s just murder made acceptable by the majority telling us it is.
Death Penalty just creates more murderers.Now, I know they don’t shoot the guy, calm down - but when you’re part of making the decision that someone be “put down”, so to speak, that makes you involved in their unnatural death.
I don’t understand how any person feels they have the right to condemn someone to death. And at any rate - wouldn’t it be more of a punishment for the persecuted to remain imprisoned for the rest of their life. No freedom, no nothing - just the same thing over and over every damn day.
My opinion, anyway.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrwjijDDjc1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Another Follow Up of the Day: Despite a slew of last-ditch efforts, including an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, death row inmate Troy Davis was executed by lethal injection at Georgia Diagnostic Prison near Jackson, Georgia, at precisely 11:08 PM tonight.
A moment of jubilation for supporters came and went as the Supreme Court temporarily delayed the execution so that it could issue its ruling. At around 10:20 PM it was officially announced: There would be no stay.
Doubts about Davis’s guilt stemming from potentially flawed ballistic evidence and the recantations of several witnesses who blamed police pressure on their initial statement were not enough to persuade neither Georgia’s Supreme Court nor its national counterpart to halt the execution of the man convicted in 1991 of murdering off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail.
An earlier request for an additional pardons board hearing was also denied, as was a request to allow Davis to take a polygraph test. “He has had ample time to prove his innocence,” said MacPhail’s widow Joan MacPhail-Harris, “and he is not innocent.”
The White House declined to comment, saying “it is not appropriate for the President of the United States to weigh in on specific cases.”
According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, Davis is the 29th inmate to be put to death by lethal injection since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1973. There are presently 99 men and one woman on Georgia’s death row.
[ajc / ap / reuters / @jaketapper / gdc / photo: ap via cbsnews.]
crying.
Fuck everything.
This was why I was worried to go out tonight. People would be angry. Some parts of downtown were apparently blocked off as protestors picketed for his life.
Despite my mom trying to figure out whether he was innocent or not (both of us don’t have much information) I have done some vague research on his case. Ultimately, I don’t agree with the death penalty. It’s such a flawed method of punishment and a way of dealing with ‘things’. With witnesses and such all so wishy-washy no one should be put to death. Too much doubt. Not enough evidence.
I hope I don’t wake up to the news reporting riots - which is what the police and such have been preparing for. They think riots might happen. I just don’t want the violence. :C
I believe the Death Penalty is valid,
but only if there is no doubt whatsoever that the person committed the crime.
If there’s even an inkling of a doubt, the person shouldn’t even be in prison in the first place. The law says that a person can be convicted only if there is no reasonable doubt in the jury’s eyes.
Georgia, and honestly, the entire South, needs to get out of its primitive ways of not only racism, but condemning those they don’t understand - Note the West Memphis Three.
But how can there ever be ‘no doubt whatsoever’? There is always doubt when dealing with people. Even if there’s only a fraction of a chance that the person in question is innocent, there is still the possibility. I don’t think anyone has the right to take someone else’s life, whether it be a private person or the government. And I don’t see how killing someone shows other people that killing people is wrong. Death sentence is statistically shown to have no effect on lowering the crime rate. It’s useless. It’s just murder made acceptable by the majority telling us it is.
Death Penalty just creates more murderers.
Now, I know they don’t shoot the guy, calm down - but when you’re part of making the decision that someone be “put down”, so to speak, that makes you involved in their unnatural death.
I don’t understand how any person feels they have the right to condemn someone to death. And at any rate - wouldn’t it be more of a punishment for the persecuted to remain imprisoned for the rest of their life. No freedom, no nothing - just the same thing over and over every damn day.
My opinion, anyway.
