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The Supreme Court Upholding Troy Davis's Death Penalty Would Be a Crime

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If you guys would look at the AP News Report you would know that I was one of the jurists of Troy Davis's trial. Don't any of you ever check the facts. The witnesses that count are the Burger King Manager, The night clean-up man who was sitting in his car when Troy slap the young man with a gun up side of his head and knock him on to the hood of the clean-up man's car. The eight Airforce Men who were going thru the Burger King Drive-thru watching all of this happen and the young lady that the guy was talking to. they all were withing 2 to 20 feet of the incident with the outside lights on. None of these people changed ther mind. No one listen to the hoods and thugs that testified who now are changing there stories. You people need to get real and stop being so easy mislead. Next Time recognize the people who are making money out of this.

william hilliard of CA 12:25AM July 06, 2009

The issue here should not be a Black and White one. Punishing someone (especially executing him!) who is not guilty is terribly wrong for two reasons:
1. It is wrong (and evil!) to punish any innocent person; and
2. By punishing the wrong person, the justice sysem stops looking for the really guilty person!
There is a reason why outside the Supreme Court, the lady holding the scales of justice is blindfolded.
Why is it that there are seemingly reasonable people not understanding this? Let's see how many reasonable justices there are in the Supreme Court...

Steve Wang of PA 11:15PM July 01, 2009

The execution of every innocent makes us all guilty. Only God is capable of perfect justice - men make mistakes.
I would like to think, if it were my child who was murdered, that I would still want justice - not vengeance. But, even if my grief and anger drove me to demand vengeance the courts should not be swayed by demands for revenge - but only be concerned with justice, and at the same time protecting society... Both can be achieved without another killing.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 3:19PM July 01, 2009

Well said

Hate gets you no where of FL 11:27AM July 01, 2009

It is an outrage that this man has been incarcerated on death row and has almost been executed more than once when it's clear that his innocence was never disproved beyond a reasonable doubt because there is no evidence to support guilt on his part.
I find it disturbing that citizens of this country place lives of police above the lives of citizens as evidenced by the rush to retaliate in this case whether or not it was against an innocent man. Police are notoriously lazy nationwide, arresting the first warm body available rather than doing the work involved with pinpointing the guilty parties responsible for the crimes committed in this country.
There can be no argument against the fact that that blacks and hispanics are sentenced to death more than whites, sentenced more often, and for longer periods of time than whites.
A white cop gets shot and the first black man available was arrested and sentenced to death. That's what happened here. Troy Davis should be let out of prison and compensated for the years of his life wasted in prison for something he didn't do, not that this would make up for the injustice or the time he's lost.
Why is it so hard to do the right thing and admit a wrong has been done?

marlene keller of AZ 11:18AM July 01, 2009

Anyone who commits a crime should pay his/her dues. Instead of spewing which member of the Crayola Box should be executed, why don't you put your time and energy in doing something productive with yourselves and your communities? I wish that you would especially put your time and energy in demanding the PROPER education of our young and demand that all individuals practice personal responsibility and self-discipline, starting with YOURSELVES.

Lupeta of IL 10:57AM July 01, 2009

By your own account, BLONDIEF, Minorities accounted for 43% of those executed and 55% of those on death row. HOWEVER, you fail to mention that during the same time period, 45.8% of homicide offenders were WHITE. So, it seems to me we shouldn't be putting more blacks on death row, but perhaps we should be putting more WHITES.

Get it straight of VA 2:23PM June 29, 2009

I live in one of the greatest nations on the face of this earth but I am sitting here reading this article and I am not crying tears but my soul is crying and pleading with the God of Justice and Mercy to intervene in this case. I don't know if Troy is innocent or not but because the witnesses have not stood by their testimony (and there is little physical evidence) he deserves a new trial and the family should be able to put this behind them and be at peace.

Debra Shoemaker Dorris of CA 8:52PM June 27, 2009

Minorities accounted for 43% of those executed and 55% of those on death row. How much of the prison population is minority? According to the "Justice Policy Journal", at the end of the year of 2005, Whites made up 35% of the prison population, Blacks made up 40% and Hispanics made up 20%. In 2005, blacks were 5.6 times more likely to be incarcerated than whites.According to Bureau of Justice statistics, between 1976 and 2005, blacks, while 13 percent of the population, committed over 52 percent of the nation’s homicides and were 46 percent of the homicide victims. Ninety-four percent of black homicide victims had a black person as their murderer.
This tells me we should be putting more blacks on death row.

blondief of TX 2:05AM June 27, 2009