Posted on 09/21/2011 8:26:56 PM PDT by Steelfish
'It's Over': After Three Torturous Hours Strapped To The Chair Troy Davis Has Been Executed Davis finally died at 11.08pm
All nine Supreme Court justices voted to deny the stay after taking more than four hours to come to their decision
Appeal had challenged ballistics linking Davis to the crime, and eyewitness testimony identifying Davis as the killer
Davis convicted of killing off duty police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989 Defence lawyers say there is still 'lingering doubt' of Davis' guilt By HANNAH ROBERTS 22nd September 2011
Mental torture: The convicted murderer was sedated and strapped to the chair in the execution chamber before Georgia officials stopped the process minutes before the scheduled 7pm death
The execution of Troy Davis has gone ahead despite a dramatic intervention minutes before he was due to be put to death. The death row inmate was executed by lethal injection within an hour of the decision by US Supreme Court justices.
In a gruesome scene, the convicted murderer was said to be sedated and strapped to the chair in the execution chamber before Georgia officials stopped the process just before the scheduled 7pm death.
A last minute appeal by Davis' lawyers challenged ballistics linking the death row inmate to the 1989 murder of off-duty policeman Mark MacPhail and eyewitness testimony identifying Davis as the killer. After more than four hours the appeal was denied by the Supreme Court Justices. Five of nine Supreme Court judges were needed to stay the execution.
A statement issues by the Supreme Court read :'The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice (Clarence) Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
All nine.
Too bad they didn’t zap him with 66,000 volts instead.
They aren’t even back to work yet. They don’t start until October...so I question it was all nine, too.
So I don’t understand why the media is referring to him as “Troy Davis.”
The street name he preferred to go by was “Rah” which stands for “Rough as Hell.”
The media doesn’t call “50 Cent” Curtis Jackson and they don’t call “Snoop Dogg” Calvin Broadus.
On twitter liberals like Alec Baldwin are claiming that Michelle Malkin “killed” an innocent man LOL..funny how Baldwin doesn’t mention how liberal judges on the Supreme Court also denied him a stay in his execution..I guess he forgot that little tidbit
They’re all racists, all 9.
Apparently, “gruesome” has a different meaning in the UK...
Oh, the horror, it sounds about as gruesome as sedation dentistry.
So, basically, all these killer-lovers achieved was to make the murderer sweat for a few more hours before he died. Well done, “Reverend” Al.
Ahhhhh, yes. A British publication........always quick to judge our “Capital Punishment” law.......but desired execution for the “Colonials”.
One less Obama voter.
“In a gruesome scene, the convicted murderer was said to be sedated and strapped to the chair in the execution chamber”
Unlike his victim, who was given a kind, peaceful death.
(Seething sarcasm OFF)
>“In a gruesome scene, the convicted murderer was said to be sedated and strapped to the chair...”
Apparently, “gruesome” has a different meaning in the UK...<
But it wasn’t gruesome for these limey vaginas when foreigners burn their cities to the ground in the last riots.
Had someone make a snarky comment on FB about how she couldn’t believe that people could consider themselves pro-life and still support the death penalty.
Wanted to message back that I didn’t know that all 9 Supreme Court justices consider themselves pro-life.
Some people are just idiots.
Not near as gruesome as the scene Davis left behind in 1989.
The street name he preferred to go by was “Rah” which stands for “Rough as Hell.”
rah in Hebrew means wicked
See ya.....
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