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Disgusting - our judicial system failed this man....
There was not enough proof...
Seven of the nine witnesses recanted what they claimed...
The witnesses were proven wrong....
He was not guilty.........
So sad.......
It was even said they use the drug they use on animals to put them to sleep...which is not supposed to be used on humans...even more digusting.
And there was a guy in Texas that murded his ex gf, the guy she was cheating with and injured his sister but this asshole got pardoned in fuckin Texas!
You can watch it LIVE -- here:
http://www.democracynow.org/
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Originally Posted by KellyShore
It is sad case, truly sad. Thanks Kelly for posting it. I have a lot to say about capital punishment, and this case in particular, but I will save it when I am not so sad...and mad.
And he even said he didn't do it to the very end, and asked the family of the victim he supposedly killed to keep searching and he wasn't the one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Silcc69
He didn't eat his last meal....
So sad.......
Disgraceful....
We let a babykiller off too...
Even former congressman Bob Barr, who believes in the death penalty, said:Quote:
Originally Posted by KellyShore
"Former lawyer, Republican congressman and libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr said the fact that the vast majority of the witnesses had recanted in the Troy Davis case should have implored the Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop the execution. “There has been very substantial evidence of innocent that has been raised in this case, and I don’t think that it is morally or legally correct for the state of Georgia to execute a man against whom there is very substantial evidence of innocence,” he said Wednesday on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews.
Seriously???? If anyone deserved to go it was that guy.
Pelheckitt there was no proof on top of it former Head of the FBI spoke out...His old warden..and lots more spoke out for him...
This man was innocent...
There is a woman who said one of the original suspects admitted he did it...
I don't think this man did it.
he was found guilty at trial by the jurors. case closed.
Yeah with 9 phony witnesses being bullied into saying what they did...which if anyone would of went through a re-enactment they would of seen their testimonies made no sense...Quote:
Originally Posted by buds
Funny how 20 some years later people are saying this shit. if it was true they should have said it at the time. you can't change the law's. Just like the bitch that killed here kid got set free by the jurors. the system might not be perfect but its better than nothing.
Why am I not surprised ....smh:geek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pelheckitt
I have a bad feeling about this thread
With respect to the case of Troy Davis, well, there was no hard physical evidence. No blood. No fingerprints. No gun. And it took place at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by buds
I mean, there are human errors that are and were made.
One of the most famous cases: O.J. Simpson. He got off because he was rich. Without question.
There is one form of justice for the rich and powerful and another form of justice for everyone else.
Stark racism was evident in this case!
and the jurors were accused of discrimination - which I don't doubt...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
And 17 cases all of which were black men were later proven innocent with DNA testing...that alone should tell you we need a better judicial system...
Stark racism is evident in a lot of things around hereQuote:
Originally Posted by Ben
This site is kinda for the birds,and I haven't seen one big booty brazilian tranny up here in days,lol
Fucking ridiculous:twisted:
Casey anthony murders her child ,leaves evidence & gets away with it. Troy Davis has NO EVIDENCE and gets lethal injection. Pathetic.. RIP Troy Davis
I'm so dam tired of the race card everytime something doesn't go the way people think it should. rant over on that but anyway weren't all of the witnesses black? so much for the race card there.
You guys need to do your homework before saying the system failed. Only failure i see is it took so long and so much of our money to get to this point.
I am sad to hear he died.... sad day! RIP Troy!
Exhibit AQuote:
Originally Posted by buds
Read previous comment,lol
A quick search pulled this up. Best clift notes of the last 22 years i can find now.
COPYRIGHT 2011 ANN COULTER
DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL UCLICK
1130 Walnut, Kansas City, MO 64106
For decades, liberals tried persuading Americans to abolish the death penalty, using their usual argument: hysterical sobbing.
Only when the media began lying about innocent people being executed did support for the death penalty begin to waver, falling from 80 percent to about 60 percent in a little more than a decade. (Silver lining: That's still more Americans than believe in man-made global warming.)
Fifty-nine percent of Americans now believe that an innocent man has been executed in the last five years. There is more credible evidence that space aliens have walked among us than that an innocent person has been executed in this country in the past 60 years, much less the past five years.
But unless members of the public are going to personally review trial transcripts in every death penalty case, they have no way of knowing the truth. The media certainly won't tell them.
It's nearly impossible to receive a death sentence these days -- unless you do something completely crazy like shoot a cop in full view of dozens of witnesses in a Burger King parking lot, only a few hours after shooting at a passing car while exiting a party.
That's what Troy Davis did in August 1989. Davis is the media's current baby seal of death row.
After a two-week trial with 34 witnesses for the state and six witnesses for the defense, the jury of seven blacks and five whites took less than two hours to convict Davis of Officer Mark MacPhail's murder, as well as various other crimes. Two days later, the jury sentenced Davis to death.
Now, a brisk 22 years after Davis murdered Officer MacPhail, his sentence will finally be administered this week -- barring any more of the legal shenanigans that have kept taxpayers on the hook for Davis' room and board for the past two decades.
(The average time on death row is 14 years. Then liberals turn around and triumphantly claim the death penalty doesn't have any noticeable deterrent effect. As the kids say: Duh.)
It has been claimed -- in The New York Times and Time magazine, for example -- that there was no "physical evidence" connecting Davis to the crimes that night.
Davis pulled out a gun and shot two strangers in public. What "physical evidence" were they expecting? No houses were broken into, no cars stolen, no rapes or fistfights accompanied the shootings. Where exactly would you look for DNA? And to prove what?
I suppose it would be nice if the shell casings from both shootings that night matched. Oh wait -- they did. That's "physical evidence."
It's true that the bulk of the evidence against Davis was eyewitness testimony. That tends to happen when you shoot someone in a busy Burger King parking lot.
Eyewitness testimony, like all evidence tending to show guilt, has gotten a bad name recently, but the "eyewitness" testimony in this case did not consist simply of strangers trying to distinguish one tall black man from another. For one thing, several of the eyewitnesses knew Davis personally.
The bulk of the eyewitness testimony established the following:
Two tall, young black men were harassing a vagrant in the Burger King parking lot, one in a yellow shirt and the other in a white Batman shirt. The one in the white shirt used a brown revolver to pistol-whip the vagrant. When a cop yelled at them to stop, the man in the white shirt ran, then wheeled around and shot the cop, walked over to his body and shot him again, smiling.
Some eyewitnesses described the shooter as wearing a white shirt, some said it was a white shirt with writing, and some identified it specifically as a white Batman shirt. Not one witness said the man in the yellow shirt pistol-whipped the vagrant or shot the cop.
Several of Davis' friends testified -- without recantation -- that he was the one in a white shirt. Several eyewitnesses, both acquaintances and strangers, specifically identified Davis as the one who shot Officer MacPhail.
Now the media claim that seven of the nine witnesses against Davis at trial have recanted.
First of all, the state presented 34 witnesses against Davis -- not nine -- which should give you some idea of how punctilious the media are about their facts in death penalty cases.
Among the witnesses who did not recant a word of their testimony against Davis were three members of the Air Force, who saw the shooting from their van in the Burger King drive-in lane. The airman who saw events clearly enough to positively identify Davis as the shooter explained on cross-examination, "You don't forget someone that stands over and shoots someone."
Recanted testimony is the least believable evidence since it proves only that defense lawyers managed to pressure some witnesses to alter their testimony, conveniently after the trial has ended. Even criminal lobbyist Justice William Brennan ridiculed post-trial recantations.
Three recantations were from friends of Davis, making minor or completely unbelievable modifications to their trial testimony. For example, one said he was no longer sure he saw Davis shoot the cop, even though he was five feet away at the time. His remaining testimony still implicated Davis.
One alleged recantation, from the vagrant's girlfriend (since deceased), wasn't a recantation at all, but rather reiterated all relevant parts of her trial testimony, which included a direct identification of Davis as the shooter.
Only two of the seven alleged "recantations" (out of 34 witnesses) actually recanted anything of value -- and those two affidavits were discounted by the court because Davis refused to allow the affiants to testify at the post-trial evidentiary hearing, even though one was seated right outside the courtroom, waiting to appear.
The court specifically warned Davis that his refusal to call his only two genuinely recanting witnesses would make their affidavits worthless. But Davis still refused to call them -- suggesting, as the court said, that their lawyer-drafted affidavits would not have held up under cross-examination.
With death penalty opponents so fixated on Davis' race -- he's black -- it ought to be noted that all the above witnesses are themselves African-American. The first man Davis shot in the car that night was African-American.
I notice that the people so anxious to return this sociopathic cop-killer to the street don't live in his neighborhood.
There's a reason more than a dozen courts have looked at Davis' case and refused to overturn his death sentence. He is as innocent as every other executed man since at least 1950, which is to say, guilty as hell.
well Ann Coulter said it so it must be true.
Gotta give it to this guy above me
Hes defiant,in his indirect racial jabs
CONGRATS...lol
Right.Quote:
Originally Posted by buds
Besides some people are inherently, genetically predisposed towards crime.
Not enough evidence to give that man the death penalty. Maybe not enough to grant him clemency, but you can't IMO put someone to death when your case is based almost exclusively on eye witness testimony from 9 people, when 7 of those eyewitnesses later recant because they aren't really sure who killed that off-duty officer.
Criminal justice, to quote the president of the NAACP, can't be a 'blunt force instrument', where all that matters is someone, ANYONE is punished. Guilt or innocence is secondary.
There has to be surgical precision when giving out death sentences...beyond a shadow of a doubt.
How does someone get the death penalty for shooting another person? Sooo many people are shot to death, and their killers get 10-20 years in prison. I totally understand the death penalty for the guys in CT. who raped, tortured, bound and burned to death 3 girls (2 of them -18) in front of their father/husband during a home invasion. But Lethal Injection for shooting 1 person?! Come on now.. That's so excessive.
I believe an innocent man was put to death today. This whole case was built by police officers and detectives who bullied "witnesses" into testifying against Troy.
So so sad. I hope his family (and the family of the victim) somehow find strength, closure and peace in the near future.
Puuurtee and smart...me likez thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Kayden Harley
Buds, there weren't 34 eyewitnesses to the shooting. There were 34 prosecution witnesses who testified against Davis.
There was no firearm recovered, and the claims that shell casings found at the scene matched those discovered at other crime scenes allegedly committed by Davis was later found not be true. The ballistics testing later showed all the shell casing didn't come from the same weapon.
Anne Coulter is pro killing Black men. She's even in favor of the death penalty when DNA exonerates the convicted defendant.
Davis wasn't a church deacon and he had a prior record, but I don't believe ANY witnesses were able to distinguish which among two Black men shot a cop in the middle of the night.
A defense attorney billing $500/hour would have won this case in a walk.
The jury not the witnessesQuote:
Originally Posted by buds
While we are talking about executions. One of the guys who were responsible in the dragging death of James Byrd in Jasper, TX was put to death at 6:21pm. So the court system can't be all that bad. Although I don't know much about the Troy Davis case to comment on it.
Anne Coulter is off her walker - good points dollQuote:
Originally Posted by giovanni_hotel
Yeah. I haven't heard about anybody shedding a tear for that asshole.Quote:
Originally Posted by bte
I was happy that he died. Racist pieces of shit like that don't deserve to live. Another guy that was part of it is suppose to die but his death penalty case is in appeals at the moment. The third guy has life in prison.Quote:
Originally Posted by hippifried
Ann Coulter really needs to be gangbanged...
Yeah, and on video so we can all see her penis. :dancing:Quote:
Originally Posted by Willie Escalade
~BB~
Well if Troy actually didn't commit that crime it doesn't matter now. The State has murdered him. Abolish the death penalty. Civilised countries did it long ago - but the US continues to line up alongside such other free nations as iran and China in killing people for crime.
The only crime here,is it took 20 years to kill some murdering bastard.And some lefty freaks are calling this a lynching... This was no lynching they need to do some reading.
I also read about the sexual abuse ,racism (naughty naughty) and threats of violence michelle malkin is getting for supporting the killing of the cop killer on her twitter . Wheres the tolerance robert? LMAO.
Boring I know, but there is a Politics and Religion thread for this, and Russtafa did begin a thread on capital punishment some time ago; curious how many people can't be bothered to click over to one part of HA but are keen to get stuck in here.
I just emailed Judge Penny Freeseman.
Dear Ms. Freeseman,
I want to congratulate you for murdering a man tonight. Now you have the rare knowledge of what it feels like - something the rest of us decent people can't imagine.
You truly have become Troy Davis by murdering a man, yourself - if indeed he even murdered someone. Your murder however is not in question.
Are you sleeping well tonight? I hear lack of guilt defines sociopaths so you must be sleeping soundly.
It's disconcerting to know that you will go to work tomorrow and continue in your public service position - because you, mam, belong in prison with the rest of the murderers.
Let me alter a war quote for you:
Never think that killing someone - no matter how justified, is not a crime.
You have failed humanity tonight.
The wonderful thing is that by the outcry on internet I see that most of humanity is far above you, so there is hope for the human race yet.
Good night, you animal.
Her email address:
pfreesemann@chathamcounty.org
Obama should have stepped in and pardoned Davis. That man Obama is such a disgrace to America! He lacks fortitude, character and courage. He is a joke. Disgusting! Worse than Bush the younger.
Par ce que les USA ne sont pas l'Arabie S.... ! Cet homme avait passé 20ans en prison à attendre qu'on le tue ... Mes pensées vont vers lui ce matin . S'il avait été blanc Obama aurait surement tenté de le sauver, il lui a manqué le courage d'afficher qu'un noir peut aider un autre noir de la même façon qu'il l'aurait fait pour un blanc ! La encore la question du racisme se pose en plus de l'arbitraire de cette justice digne effectivement des geôles d'Arabie Saoudite ou d'Iran ! Mêmes les animaux entre eux sont moins cruels, notre espèce est condamnée à s'auto détruire ...
Madame Anneliese MacPhail, votre douleur d'avoir perdu un fils vient de vous amener à faire exécuter un innocent, qui par votre faute vient d'être exécuté après quand même 20 ans de couloir de la mort. Etes vous soulagée? Non, cela ne ramènera pas votre fils, et je vous prédis une peine encore plus lourde, celle de culpabilité d'avoir fait assassiné un jeune homme, peut_être qu'il fut noir vous mettra du baume au coeur (?) Le fait de se retrancher derrière la justice, ne vous empêchera pas votre responsabilité dans ce drame. Je vous souhaite longue vie, et que vous n'oubliez jamais ce crime, ce lynchage.
Troy Davis' last words: "For those about to take my life, may God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls."
So this is what Troy Davis' execution looked like. There was an *audience*. It's sick & macabre http://www2.wsav.com/news/2011/sep/2...on-ar-2445986/
Dear Georgia, we dont know if Troy Davis killed a man. Neither do u. But we know u killed Troy Davis.
RIP Troy Davis
AT, Pres. Obama can only pardon those convicted of federal crimes. Mr. Davis was convicted under a Georgia state law.Quote:
Originally Posted by AngelinaTorres
Georgia supposedly took out politics out of killing convicted persons by allowing a group of civilians, working under the entity called Georgia Board of Pardons, the ability to pardon or offer clemency. Not even the political head of the state of Georgia, the govenor, could have stepped in and prevented the killing of Troy Davis. The only thing that could have prevented this killing was a John Brown, George Jackson, Ho Chi Minh, Cinque type of revolt and uprising.
President Obama had the power to pardon Troy Davis.Quote:
Originally Posted by buckjohnson
Troy Davis isn't a failure for Obama or Black political leadership or media. It's a failure for this God-forsaken country.