Posted on 09/20/2011 9:17:53 PM PDT by americanophile
ATLANTA (AP) — Yet another appeal denied, Troy Davis was left with little to do Tuesday but wait to be executed for a murder he insists he did not commit.
He lost his most realistic chance to avoid lethal injection on Tuesday, when Georgia's pardons board rejected his appeal for clemency. As his scheduled 7 p.m. Wednesday execution neared, his backers resorted to far-fetched measures. They asked prisons officials to let him to take a polygraph test; urged prison workers to strike or call in sick; asked prosecutors to block the execution and they even considered a desperate appeal for White House intervention.
He has gotten support from hundreds of thousands of people, including a former FBI director, former President Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI, and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling gave him an unusual opportunity to prove his innocence last year. State and federal courts, however, repeatedly upheld his conviction for the 1989 killing of Mark MacPhail, an off-duty police officer who was working as a security guard in Savannah when he was shot dead rushing to help a homeless man who was being attacked.
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The problem with reading death penalty cases in the media is that one practically has to actually examine the trial record in order to get a fair understanding of the case.
This is because the MSM and their favorite sources such as Amnesty International have an agenda beyond reporting in an impartial manner the key facts of a case which is opposition to the death penalty, so one cannot trust their reporting on these types of matters.
No, it calls for proof, beyond a reasonable doubt.
A polygraph cannot be used against you but it can be used to support your case.
That is my non-law degree understanding anyway. 8)
It’s not just “some witnesses,” it’s 7 of the 9 whose testimony convicted him.
7 of the 9 witnesses recanting their stories is unusual.
Yes, the client is seldom smarter and better educated than the prosecutor. Putting a rambling, semi-literate person with a history of violence on the stand is not likely to exonerate themselves in the eyes of the jury.
Fine. He’s had multiple chances at the reasonable doubt, and he was convicted on all of them.
You can’t keep holding trials until you get the outcome that you want. At some point, the sentence must be carried out.
And let God figure out the absolutes.
Well, it was a good try anyway. Try introducing a polygraph that was not ordered by the prosecution in a criminal trial. Let me know how that goes.....
No kidding. Conservatives rightly don’t believe a word the government says, unless it’s a prosecutor who is about to take someone’s liberty or life! It’s perplexing to me.
True.
Well, I did say that it was only my non-law degree opinion.
I watch a lot of CSI! 8)
Here is Judge Moore’s order, for anyone who does not want to rely on the MSM to describe the evidence in the case:
http://www.gasd.uscourts.gov/pdf/409cv00130_92part1.pdf
http://www.gasd.uscourts.gov/pdf/409cv00130_92part2.pdf
I really hope you are someone you love are never in a spot where G-d must figure in your absolutes, especially where a man/women is the arbiter.
What’s the point in holding a trial if you’re going to stand by the verdict, but throw a sissy fit if it doesn’t go your way?
He was duly convicted on the same evidence three times.
Let’s not convict anybody of anything.
Let’s open up the prisons and let everybody out.
There is no point in holding trials if the measure is to be absolute certainty.
Prison can be stopped any time and the person declared not-guilty can be compensated for any prosecutor/police misconduct.
Death is absolutely final and several people have been declared not-guilty after the fact.
That is classic.
I’d have the death penalty applied for the shooting in the face he admits to, regardless of the death of the policeman.
You’re never going to have absolute certainty.
Videos can be doctored. Confessions can be coerced. Witnesses can be bribed.
You can explain to a father whose daughter was raped until she dies as to why the inmate, whose conviction is almost certain why he gets to live and others do not.
You are also the sort of person, where because real justice is almost unattainable, that many people cheer inhumane prison conditions or prison rape because they no longer have faith in a justice system that will give them justice.
In all trials, every means should be used to best determine guilt or non-guilt, but once an accused is found guilty, thre should be little hesitation in carrying out the sentence.
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