If a polygraph is not admissible in court, what good would that do?
Every prison is filled with innocent people, just ask them.
If he had his chance to prove his innocence and failed, you gotta pull the plug.
According to the story the witnesses placed him at the scene
“as the shooter” and spent casings found at the scene were linked to another killing he was convicted of. If the defense ‘had anything’ they would have brought it up at trial I would think.
The lower courts upheld the conviction. That some witnesses
suddenly go wobbly doesn’t make the verdict invalid I hope.
This clearly illustrates that Georgia has a serious problem with the death penalty. Why in the heck did it take 22 years to execute this cold-blooded murderer? They should take a lesson from the Commonwealth of Virginia and learn how to reduce the period from sentencing to execution by 75% or more.
I would like Davis’ accuser, Sylvester “Redd” Coles, to take a polygraph.
He was known to have a gun similar to the 38 cal murder weapon but “gave it to some other man” the night of the murder and it was never found.
But Davis probably shot some other guy in a drive-by the same night. Put them together in a pit and the one that comes out alive is guilty.
Why didn’t he ask for a poly back when he was first convicted and any time thereafter?
Kiss of death.
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.
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
Troy Anthony Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. On August 19, 1989, Troy Anthony Davis was at a Burger King restaurant with friends and and struck a homeless man named Larry Young in the head with a pistol when Young refused to give a beer to one of Davis’s friends. Officer MacPhail, who was working an off-duty security detail at the Greyhound bus terminal next door, heard Young cry out and responded to the disturbance. Davis fled and, when Officer MacPhail, wearing his full police uniform, ordered him to stop, Davis turned and shot the officer in the right thigh and chest. Although Mark MacPhail was wearing a bullet-proof vest, his sides were not protected and the bullet entered the left side of his chest, penetrating his left lung and his aorta, stopping at the back of his chest cavity. Davis, smiling, walked up to the stricken officer and shot him in the face as he lay dying in the parking lot. The officer’s gun was still strapped in his holster and his baton was still on his belt. Davis fled to Atlanta and a massive manhunt ensued. The next afternoon, Davis told a friend that he had been involved in an argument at the restaurant the previous evening and struck someone with a gun. He told the friend that when a police officer ran up, Davis shot him and that he went to the officer and “finished the job” because he knew the officer got a good look at his face when he shot him the first time. After his arrest, Davis told a cellmate a similar story. He was arrested after surrendering a few days after the murder. Trial began exactly two years to the day of Officer MacPhail’s murder. This resulted in Davis’ conviction for murder after less than two hours of deliberation by the jury, and in the imposition of a death sentence after seven hours of deliberation. He was also convicted of obstruction of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. One of the two counts of aggravated assault arose from an incident where Davis shot into a car that was leaving a party an hour before the murder of Officer MacPhail. Michael Cooper was struck in the head by a bullet, severely injuring him and leaving the bullet lodged in his jaw. Ballistics tests matched the shells from the murder of the police officer to shells found at a party earlier in the evening where Michael Cooper had been shot. Cooper identified Davis as the shooter. Even though the US Supreme Court rejected his final appeal without dissent in June of 2007, Davis received a 90-day stay from the state pardons and parole board just one day before his July 17, 2007 execution date. The stay was granted to examine claims by witnesses that they had given erroneous testimony or were no longer certain about their identification of Davis. Mark MacPhail’s son, 18-year-old Mark Allen MacPhail Jr. spoke against the 2007 stay to members of the Board of Pardons and Parole. “I told them how it felt having him ripped away from me at such an early age. Picture having Father’s Day and having no one to give anything to,” MacPhail said he told the board. Anneliese MacPhail, mother of the slain officer, commented to a reporter after learning that Davis’s request for a new trial was denied in March 2008. “I wonder, what do all those witnesses remember after 18 years? There is no new evidence. No mother should go through what I have been through.” Mark’s wife Joan MacPhail said she has lost her best friend, the father of her two children and now her peace of mind as appeals for Davis have drawn on for almost two decades. “It’s like another punch in the stomach,” she said. “You have to relive that night over and over. That’s so wrong. Why shouldn’t we have peace in our lives?” About the changing witnesses, the Georgia Supreme Court stated that most of the witnesses who recanted “have merely stated they now do not feel able to identify the shooter.” The majority could not ignore the trial testimony, “and, in fact, we favor that original testimony over the new.” The son of a U.S. Army Ranger, Mark MacPhail was a graduate of Columbus High School in Georgia. His mother, Anne, still lives in Columbus, Georgia. Davis received another stay of execution before his September 23, 2008 execution date.
Meh!
He's guilty.
Fry him,