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Innocent(?) man to be executed in 19 hours
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/op...w.html?_r=1&hp The Savannah police contaminated the memories of four witnesses by re-enacting the crime with them present so that their individual perceptions were turned into a group one. The police showed some of the witnesses Mr. Davis’s photograph even before the lineup. His lineup picture was set apart by a different background. The lineup was also administered by a police officer involved in the investigation, increasing the potential for influencing the witnesses. ~ 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. see also http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...4103-1,00.html |
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Isn't it horrific?
The death penalty is racist, classist, and barbaric. Americans should be ashamed that our court system is about to send this (very likely) innocent man to his death. I can't stand it.
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I guess the Amnesty International petition was denied then?
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Of course none of us know of his innocence or not.
But one must consider the victim's family. I'm sure they have different feelings on this from us who only read or hear about this verdict from the internet or TV. To consider it a racial commentary on the South is a fallacy. My Uncle who was a Senator for the State of Alabama was killed by a man who was on a "work release" type program. The man was arrested for drunk driving, and then found out to be driving my Uncle's car. When the Police arrived at my Uncle's home they found him dead. He'd been hit in the head, and left to die. The man responsible for this was convicted and sentenced to death. Due to a change in Alabama's capital punishment laws the man was retried and set free. They could not find the man's original hand written statement. And that was supposedly why the man got off. The man who was released was black. You can imagine how my family feels about this lack of justice. All I ask is to remember the victims too. |
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But if there's reasonable doubt at all... and it sounds like there's no forensic evidence... then give the guy jail for the rest of his life. What that means is he yet has time to prove his innocence. The death penalty doesn't allow for that.
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If there is reasonable doubt at all, then the conviction should be thrown out.
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This is certainly controversial, and I don't mean to sound unsympathetic, but I don't think it's for the family of the victim to determine justice. Clouded by grief, they may want to see the murderer die. But a judge's job is not to make theme feel better--it's to uphold justice. Personally, I don't think killing a person is ever just. Quote:
I say the death penalty is racist because it's more likely to send black murderers to their deaths than white murderers. I also say it's racist because while half of the victims of murder in the United States are African American, 85 percent of the people on death row are there for killing a Caucasian. Why is it a greater crime to kill a white person? I can't say with certainty that this man wouldn't have mere hours to live if he were a white lady. But an individual's color, class and gender have a massive impact on the justice he or she will receive, and that seems profoundly wrong.
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So, we should drag an innocent person off the street, proclaim him the murderer, and execute him just to make the family feel better?
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Another perspective:
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-09-21.html Quote:
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Seven of the nine witnesses recanted, the eight is dead and the ninth is the alleged true perp. One of the witnesses was threatened after recanting and has gone into hiding.
While I think Troy Davis was up to no good that night, I think there are compelling reasons to take another look at his case. It's unfortunate that no one could find a convincing enough legal precedent to get him a new trial. There were rumours that he was strapped to a gurney the entire time the Supreme Court debated last night. I do hope his legal team continues to dig for answers in this case. |
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Wikipedia fails to list any murder of an Alabama Senator.
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How dare you. That's the lowest post I've ever
seen on the Ledge. I didn't post his name because I like my privacy here. But since my Uncle's last name is different from mine here you go. The Honorable Roland Cooper, former State Senator for Alabama and Judge. |
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