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Troy Davis Gets Another Week

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

The U.S. Supreme Court has given him a stay while it examines his appeal.

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 10:07 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under General Criminal Justice, Innocence. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “Troy Davis Gets Another Week”

  1. #1 |  Eric Cope |  September 23rd, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    How did a permanent punishment work its way into our non-perfect legal system?

  2. #2 |  Z |  September 24th, 2008 at 12:41 am

    Eric:

    Capital punishment is the bastard child of wild west justice and lynchings. And it’s an excellent means of population control- like other forms of government power.

  3. #3 |  Bee |  September 24th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    Thank God. And I’m an atheist!

  4. #4 |  PSYOP |  September 24th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Well, I was half-right – I knew he wouldn’t find justice in Georgia. The Supreme Court gets it right, for once! I hope he’s granted a new trial and found innocent, if indeed he didn’t do it.

    CNN: “Convicted COP KILLER avoids execution”
    MSNBC: “Georgia man gets last minute reprieve”

    “I’m mad as hell, and not going to take it any more!” – biased inflammatory media CNN scumbags masquerading as journalists!

  5. #5 |  Bronwyn |  September 24th, 2008 at 3:17 pm

    Amen, Bee!

    (also an atheist)

  6. #6 |  Bronwyn |  September 24th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    [a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/09/24/execution.delayed.reaction.ap/index.html"]This[/a] sort of stuff really scares me.

    To be so blinded as to not care if the wrong man dies… I just can’t fathom it.

    (hopes her html works)

  7. #7 |  Bronwyn |  September 24th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    dammit

    how about this?

  8. #8 |  PSYOP |  September 25th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    I read the stories on the other side of those links. Dead cop’s mom says, “If I saw him on the street, I’d punch him in the face!” and “my son is dead, there’s is still alive – that’s just how I feel!”

    Now, murder is wrong and I hate that a former Army Ranger was killed, but It’s looking like Troy Davis didn’t do it. If there is ANY question of his innocence, the execution should be stopped and a new trial date set.

    I just hope there is a hell-storm of media focus on the people who are currently advocating murdering Troy Davis! If he’s innocent, I want to see what these rednecks have to say for their behavior then. Oh, right…they’ll ask the LORD for forgiveness, since only he can decide innocence or guilt! Yeah…

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