Innocent Man To Be Executed in Georgia Tomorrow

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ga-board-denies-clemency-troy-davis-14562856. Standard practice is usually to give the source after summarizing it, but if you read nothing else in this post, then please click the link and read the story. Troy Davis was convicted of killing a police officer named Mark MacPhail on August 19th, 1989. Here is the key, "Davis has captured worldwide attention because of the doubt his supporters have raised over whether he killed MacPhail. Several of the witnesses who helped convict Davis at his 1991 trial have backed off their testimony or recanted. Others who did not testify say another man at the scene admitted to the shooting."

And then there is an interesting mix of high profile characters who are joining in saying the man should not be executed. "Among those who supported Davis' clemency request are former president Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI. A host of conservative figures have also advocated on his behalf, including former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, ex-Justice Department official Larry Thompson and one-time FBI Director William Sessions." Bob Barr is a former REPUBLICAN Congressman and prosecutor from Georgia. Larry Thompson was GEORGE BUSH'S Deputy Attorney General. And William Sessions, along with being a former FBI director, also served as a judge.

So to sum up, we have witnesses recanting testimony, and a host of high profile Republicans and Democrats calling for the execution to be halted. I am urging anyone who has honestly looked at the ABC story to sign a petition to urge the Georgia Board of Pardon and Paroles to halt the execution. There isn't much time left and an individual's life depends on it.

 

He's guilty, he will be executed. Why do you give weight to recants of testimony given under oath urged on by anti-death penalty groups? He and his partner in crime shot another guy that night and beat another guy. Shell casings match but crimes.

Tell you what when they tell those who are claiming to recant their testimony that they will be charged with perjury and and other laws against giving false testimony that results in a death penalty and they still recant, let me know.

 

Troy Davis just got a stay.

 

Margot...How do you know he is innocent? Were you on the jury...and if so why did you vote guilty?

 

Oh I don't think he's innocent.... and I wasn't on the jury..

 

Apologies...I am kinda tired. I mis-read the post.

 

From who? I heard the SCOTUS turned him down as his last appeal.

 

Supreme Court of Georgia.. and my terminology was wrong.. He got a temporary delay.

Oh h*ll.. I may have gotten that all balled up too.. The reports are very conflicted.

 

Do you have a doubt as to his guilt? That it was not fully vetted at the time of trial?

""He has had ample time to prove his innocence," said MacPhail's widow, Joan MacPhail-Harris. "And he is not innocent."
The U.S. Supreme Court gave him an unusual opportunity to prove his innocence last year, but his attorneys failed to convince a judge he didn't do it. State and federal courts have repeatedly upheld his conviction.
It was first time the Supreme Court had given such an opportunity for a death row inmate in at least 50 years. At that June 2010 hearing, two witnesses testified that they falsely incriminated Davis at his trial when they said Davis confessed to the killing. Two others told the judge the man with Davis that night later said he shot MacPhail.
Prosecutors, though, argued that Davis' lawyers were simply rehashing old testimony that had already been rejected by a jury. And they said no trial court could ever consider the hearsay from the other witnesses who blamed the other man for the crime.
U.S. District Judge William T. Moore Jr. sided with them. He said the evidence presented at the hearing wasn't nearly enough to prove Davis is innocent and validate his request for a new trial. He said while Davis' "new evidence casts some additional, minimal doubt on his conviction, it is largely smoke and mirrors."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/2...vis-to-file-last-minute-appeal/#ixzz1YdkAo6YA

 

Why would I think Davis wasn't guilty???

 

I heard it in passing it could have the Georgia or Supreme.

SCOTUS did stay an execution in Texas.

Agree the reporting is not clear.

 

Under penalty of perjury, 9/12 signed legal affidavits saying they were coerced by the police into saying he was guilty. There is also no physical evidence linking him to the crime. If you knew ANYTHING, and I mean minimal, ANYTHING, about eye witness testimony from a SIMPLE introductory class to psychology, you would know it is VERY often times not reliable, and that was what was used to convict him, and then the majority of the people recanting AND famous REPUBLICANS IN FAVOR OF THE DEATH PENALTY ITSELF saying the execution should not occur is clearly enough to cast doubt and to not go through with the execution, even if he were given life in prison.

And Obama showed a major lack of moral courage by not stepping in. But it's over now and this will go down in the history books as an abuse of the death penalty when United States finally decides to join the rest of the civilized world in ending this barbaric practice.

 

http://agora.stanford.edu/sjls/Issue One/fisher&tversky.htm

 

Correction- 7/9 witnesses.

 

Why do you people keep spreading this lie. They have more than just witness testimony.

 

What do they have? Do tell.

 

I already showed it in another thread.

He (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up and shot someone earlier and left evidence behind and that is your 'smoking gun'

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/21/national/main20109883.shtml

 

As if they thought they would be charged. Sorry recants twenty years later don't carry much weight as the SCOTUS stated last night.

Yes there was, the shell casing from the earlier crime he was convicted of.

More than you obviously.

 

I agree. All trials should be a popularity poll and guilt and innocence should be determined by Sooner28.

 

Yep...he shot a guy in the face earlier for yelling at him. Not much mention of that in today's media...

 

Well...he won't be shooting anyone else will he.

 

Nope...That is the reason for the death penalty.

 

Did you read the cast of characters calling for clemency? REPUBLICANS IN FAVOR OF THE DEATH PENALTY OVERALL said it was wrong in this case because of the EXCESSIVE DOUBT. This wasn't just liberals. I guess that was lost on you.

Anyway, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE FBI, William Sessions, penned an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution laying it out pretty well. So please, don't straw man and say SOONER28 is deciding, because clearly that is not what I was saying at all. http://www.ajc.com/opinion/should-davis-be-executed-1181530.html

 

Fabricated doubt.

 

A Republican former FBI director in favor of the death penalty is fabricating doubt? Ha!