Georgia might have executed an innocent man

[ichab]

Sad

I don't agree with AL Sharpton on much, but on this point he is right.No one should be executed unless there is solid evidence linking him/her to the crime.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

It's a tragedy. The state of Georgia may have just executed an innocent man. The system failed Troy Davis.

 

[Paradon]

I haven't been following this... If he is innocent, then their is something seriously wrong with this.

However, does anybody notice that it's getting awfully close to election time and this just came up? It makes me wonder, though. [chuckle]

 

[Spot's Meow]

I liked the way one politician put it...that it may be likely, even highly probable that he committed the crime, but that the death penalty should require absolute proof, not just likelihoods. This is the same reason that I was not supporting the death sentence in the Casey Anthony trial as well. The more I learn about the death penalty, the less reasons I have to support it in any way.

 

[Paradon]

I agree...

And...People need to learn about forgiveness...even though some pervs deserve to die.

 

[Shazam!]

This shouldn't have gone ahead, doubt or not.

Way to go, dickheads.

 

[Nociod]

It's a shame that they didn't stop this execution. I'm against the death penalty for all cases, even where it's a 100% certainty, like in my country the mass murderer terrorist Breivik, but if you're going to have it, then atleast reserve it for cases where there's no doubt

Seven of nine witnesses against Mr. Davis recanted after trial. Six said the police threatened them if they did not identify Mr. Davis. The man who first told the police that Mr. Davis was the shooter later confessed to the crime. There are other reasons to doubt Mr. Davis’s guilt: There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime introduced at trial, and new ballistics evidence broke the link between him and a previous shooting that provided the motive for his conviction. - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/opinion/a-grievous-wrong-on-georgias-death-row.html?_r=4&hp

A damn shame...

 

[Danoz]

Sad

I don't agree with AL Sharpton on much, but on this point he is right.No one should be executed unless there is solid evidence linking him/her to the crime.

I think it's bizarre somebody didn't step in on this one. I mean, we weren't talking about death or freedom, this guy would have simply returned to prison at no risk to anybody but himself... so why the media spectacle of going forward with an EXECUTION when there are even tiny new shreds of doubt on this issue.

I think we should be saving the death penalty for rapists and mass-murderers who have no potential to be rehabilitated and re-assimilated into society. At the very least it doesn't seem like this person (guilty or not) is in that category of criminal.

The U.S. is well on its way toward being more progressive, but damn stuff like this is hard to swallow. What was up with the Court on this one?

 

[Paradon]

That's what the appeals are for, aren't it? If they did find any reasonable doubt, he would have been clear already. Unless the court is very corrupted, which I seriously doubt. I respect most officers of the laws; they're take their jobs very seriously to put pervs behind bars to protect people like us. Why didn't they make this an issue a long time ago...and just now making a big bang?

Can somebody enlighten me on this issue? I haven't been following it. I just found out today.

 

[Roger Wilco]

It's a shame that they didn't stop this execution. I'm against the death penalty for all cases, even where it's a 100% certainty, like in my country the mass murderer terrorist Breivik, but if you're going to have it, then atleast reserve it for cases where there's no doubt

I agree. However, another man was executed in the USA last night and I have to admit, that doesn't break my heart.

 

[Kestra]

Any execution seems barbaric to me.

 

[Paradon]

Well, if you had someone in your family that was raped, tortured and killed, then you understand why some people are for the death penalty. But I think if we learn to forgive the world would be a better place...

 

[Kestra]

I understand the desire for something resembling vengeance. I still think it's a barbaric practice. There's a reason that victims and their families are not the ones meting out justice.

I certainly wouldn't expect forgiveness in extreme cases like that, however.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The law shouldn't be meting out vengeance. There should be no death penalty. Cases like this are only one reason why.

 

[spooky spice]

Well, if you had someone in your family that was raped, tortured and killed, then you understand why some people are for the death penalty. But I think if we learn to forgive the world would be a better place...

I saw a documentary on TV once where a woman stood up on court and pleaded against the death penalty for the man who'd murdered her family (I forget the whole details) the judge took her words and the fact that she'd forgiven the killer on board, but sentenced him to death anyways as he felt the law hadn't forgiven anything

 

[Paradon]

Great for her! I admire her for that.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Any execution seems barbaric to me.

The law shouldn't be meting out vengeance. There should be no death penalty. Cases like this are only one reason why.

These are the right answers.

 

[Shazam!]

I think you'll find I posted the right answer too.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I think you'll find I posted the right answer too.

Yeah, but I don't quote people I don't like.

 

[Pingfah]

Except to point out you don't like them, it seems