whether or not Troy Davis was guilty, the fact that someone can be executed with ZERO physical evidence tying them to the crime is beyond the pale. it has long been established that eyewitness accounts are not 100% reliable as evidence, but yet not only did a jury decide that the eyewitness accounts were enough to convict, they handed down a death sentence as well. then when 7 of 9 eyewitnesses recanted their testimony, it still wasn't enough to prevent the execution.
zero physical evidence, 7 of 9 eyewitnesses coming forward to say they were either wrong or coerced by police to give misleading testimony and yet we still put the convicted man to death for it. yay.... 
And it has been reported that of the remaining two, one of them has been linked to the murder - including that he supposedly drunkenly confessed to it and admitted owning a handgun of the type use to commit the killing but never found, though he claimed to have given it away to someone else earlier that night. This ebing the bloke who first implicated Davis.
It all sounds pretty messed up based on the reports I've seen of it - more concerned on executing someone for the crime rather than seeing justice done.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
i'm proud to live in a country where you can be executed based on circumstantial evidence...
- 22/09/2011 04:06:07 PM
1636 Views
And yet the Supreme Court didn't stop it. You're a lawyer right?
- 22/09/2011 04:19:05 PM
980 Views
Well, that right there was an ignorant thing to say.
- 22/09/2011 04:32:49 PM
1047 Views
But they get all the media attention
- 22/09/2011 04:45:03 PM
924 Views
*NM*
Cameron Todd Willingham is white, and his story is a national one since Perry is running for Pres
- 23/09/2011 03:41:52 PM
792 Views
those numbers are less schocking when you consider that blacks commet a lot more murders *NM*
- 22/09/2011 05:43:51 PM
405 Views
And this is a typically illogical argument.
- 22/09/2011 11:11:48 PM
955 Views
You're kidding, right?
- 23/09/2011 02:55:44 PM
931 Views
Re: You're kidding, right?
- 23/09/2011 07:36:38 PM
940 Views
Juror bias. *NM*
- 23/09/2011 08:35:10 PM
373 Views
Your evidence for that? *NM*
- 23/09/2011 11:33:58 PM
384 Views
Twenty-one years of life in the American South.
- 24/09/2011 12:40:10 AM
883 Views
Of course I'm interested
- 24/09/2011 04:03:51 AM
824 Views
From me being too involved with the subject material. I apologize.
- 24/09/2011 11:16:06 AM
793 Views
While I largely agree with your argument, I agree more with Cannoli on the NAACP.
- 23/09/2011 07:46:06 PM
864 Views
From what I've read it is pretty disturbing
- 22/09/2011 04:27:44 PM
984 Views
Huh.
- 22/09/2011 04:47:20 PM
986 Views
That jumped out at me too.
- 22/09/2011 04:50:52 PM
922 Views
What really confuses me
- 22/09/2011 04:58:32 PM
864 Views
That's a good question and I really wish it would be addressed.
- 22/09/2011 05:05:40 PM
978 Views
Re: That's a good question and I really wish it would be addressed.
- 22/09/2011 05:21:59 PM
1004 Views
If the original trial is shown to be flawed that's supposed to require a new trial.
- 22/09/2011 08:25:51 PM
889 Views
Well...
- 22/09/2011 05:18:54 PM
1024 Views
So if I understand you correctly...
- 22/09/2011 05:23:00 PM
963 Views
Yes, that is correct. And proving witness coercion is likely to be difficult if not impossible. *NM*
- 22/09/2011 05:30:37 PM
349 Views
it is only confusing because the evidence isn't really that shaky
- 22/09/2011 08:54:21 PM
928 Views
If I understand the Supreme Court correctly, the reason they denied the stay of execution was
- 22/09/2011 08:25:14 PM
942 Views
I completely support the Death Penalty without question.....
- 22/09/2011 08:27:54 PM
843 Views
Unreasonable doubt is impossible to eliminate.
- 22/09/2011 09:54:43 PM
922 Views
Doubt can be eliminated.....any question about Dalmer?
- 23/09/2011 01:00:52 PM
981 Views
Maybe he was framed by an enemy, government conspiracy or aliens.
- 23/09/2011 01:54:21 PM
857 Views
Jigga what? 
*NM*
- 23/09/2011 03:36:07 PM
487 Views
*NM*
- 23/09/2011 03:36:07 PM
487 Views
"I do not know if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly or am now a butterfly..."
- 23/09/2011 06:50:34 PM
859 Views
Circumstantial evidence is not, I believe, a bar to conviction.
- 22/09/2011 09:43:56 PM
828 Views
Regarding the salvation thing, that is an argument FOR the death penalty, in my mind.
- 22/09/2011 11:37:16 PM
889 Views
That motive is seflish and thus fatal.
- 23/09/2011 01:17:00 AM
846 Views
Bullshit
- 25/09/2011 03:53:05 AM
1049 Views
Where do YOU get the idea that imperfect contrition is good enough?
- 25/09/2011 02:29:18 PM
1379 Views
Thank God you're not an evangelist.
- 23/09/2011 02:59:06 PM
858 Views
And I pity the souls you have ministered to. They're in for a rude shock at their judgement
- 25/09/2011 04:01:05 AM
853 Views
lol roman catholicism *NM*
- 25/09/2011 04:39:55 AM
357 Views
Not just Roman Catholics, y'know, everyone who thinks God was not BSing about judgement.
- 25/09/2011 09:47:12 PM
907 Views
lol hellfire and brimstone *NM*
- 26/09/2011 12:12:28 AM
349 Views
I suppose in a consequences free world everything is a source of amusement.
- 26/09/2011 12:33:14 AM
1070 Views
You really don't understand irony, do you? Particularly as it applies to your post about this case.
- 22/09/2011 11:26:49 PM
965 Views
.
- 23/09/2011 08:21:38 AM
895 Views
A list of anecdotal wrongs does not prove anything. If convictions can be wrong, so can exonerations *NM*
- 25/09/2011 04:03:26 AM
358 Views
sorry if i don't have time to link to every 
thing i've read on the subject
- 23/09/2011 02:54:50 PM
1034 Views
thing i've read on the subject
- 23/09/2011 02:54:50 PM
1034 Views
Well I would think you would have picked an article that offers some iota of proof of his innocence.
- 25/09/2011 04:14:45 AM
937 Views
Well, I wouldn't call eyewitness accounts circumstancial evidence.
- 23/09/2011 11:45:48 PM
864 Views
Nor would I, but I've heard that lawyers say, "an eye witness is the worst witness you can have."
- 25/09/2011 03:23:53 PM
863 Views