Troy Davis

gimmesometruth27

Idris

brianlux wrote:

Just received this from NAACP:

http://www.naacp.org/blog/entry/the-wor ... roys-name1

Tonight the State of Georgia has killed an innocent man.

In recent weeks, we fought hard for the commutation of Troy Davis' sentence. More than one million of your petitions were delivered. Protests, rallies and vigils were organized around the globe. Tonight, we fasted and prayed together as a community.

I have spent the past week with Troy's family. He wanted the world to know that he understood that this struggle goes beyond just one man. Troy was prepared to die tonight. As he said again and again, the state of Georgia only held the power to take his physical body. They could not take his spirit, because he gave his life to God.

Let's remember and heed Troy's words: We must not let them kill our spirit, either.

Troy's execution, the exceptional unfairness of it, will only hasten the end of the death penalty in the United States. The world will remember the name of Troy Anthony Davis. In death he will live on as a symbol of a broken justice system that kills an innocent man while a murderer walks free.

The world will remember Troy's name, as the death penalty supporters who expressed doubt in this case begin to doubt an entire system that can execute a man amidst so many unanswered questions.

The world will remember Troy's name, as death penalty opponents who remained silent in the past realize that their silence is no longer an option.

The world will remember Troy's name because we will commemorate September 21st each year as both a solemn anniversary and a call to action. The night they put Troy Davis to death will become an annual reminder that justice will not be achieved until we end this brutal practice of capital punishment.

"This movement," Troy said, "started before I was born." After tonight, our movement will grow stronger until we succeed in destroying the death penalty in the United States once and for all.

I know you will join me. Together we will secure his legacy, and the world will remember the name Troy Anthony Davis.

In solidarity,

Ben Jealous

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brianlux

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

Yes, thank you bro.

wolfamongwolves

"Troy's execution, the exceptional unfairness of it, will only hasten the end of the death penalty in the United States."
I had been just thinking that this is the only positive that can possibly come out of the killing of Troy Davis.

I have been following this case for years, and I honestly never thought it would come to this. I have naively believed that, when all the facts are looked at objectively, as any notion of justice demands they must be, that those responsible to ensure justice is served would use reason and see sense and realise that there could be no meaningful justification for killing this man. How foolish of me.

America stubborly remains the only Western democracy that has not, and refuses to, mature beyond this archaic, backward and fundamentally flawed practice. I can only hope that this hypocritical and murderous injustice, that we are supposed to believe is somehow "justice", spurs the US legal system to finally civilise, realise the hypocrisy and the injustice inherent in the death penalty, and abandon it for good.

As far as I am concerned, both the Georgia State Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States have fundamentally betrayed their commitments to be arbiters of justice, and rendered themselves unworthy of their office.

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

wolfamongwolves

A message from Troy Davis, written shortly before he was killed.


To All:

I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the eldest and she will not back down from this fight to save my life and prove to the world that I am innocent of this terrible crime.

As I look at my mail from across the globe, from places I have never ever dreamed I would know about and people speaking languages and expressing cultures and religions I could only hope to one day see first hand. I am humbled by the emotion that fills my heart with overwhelming, overflowing Joy. I can’t even explain the insurgence of emotion I feel when I try to express the strength I draw from you all, it compounds my faith and it shows me yet again that this is not a case about the death penalty, this is not a case about Troy Davis, this is a case about Justice and the Human Spirit to see Justice prevail.

I cannot answer all of your letters but I do read them all, I cannot see you all but I can imagine your faces, I cannot hear you speak but your letters take me to the far reaches of the world, I cannot touch you physically but I feel your warmth everyday I exist.

So Thank you and remember I am in a place where execution can only destroy your physical form but because of my faith in God, my family and all of you I have been spiritually free for some time and no matter what happens in the days, weeks to come, this Movement to end the death penalty, to seek true justice, to expose a system that fails to protect the innocent must be accelerated. There are so many more Troy Davis’. This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city, state by state and country by country.

I can’t wait to Stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or spiritual form, I will one day be announcing,

“I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM FREE!”

Never Stop Fighting for Justice and We will Win!

pandora

many broken hearts, disillusioned people, the fight has just begun

g under p

.....From my phone....it's hard to read Troys last words when posted in red. The whole thing saddens me to no end. I couldn't watch ANY of it last night in order to get some sleep. What is this country coming to as far as some kind of fair justice. While in Texas the killer of the truck dragging murder was executed last night as well.....coincidence?

Peace

gimmesometruth27

i am a little pissed off at the hypocracy of liberals in the media. i understand the outrage about the Troy Davis case and how people like Al Sharpton and Barry Scheck were railing against the death penalty in this case, yet not one peep about the man who murdered James Byrd in texas. not one sentence condemning texas for the murder they were about to commit.

we can not pick and choose which cases that we are against the death penalty. either we are against it in all cases, or we support it..

g under p

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i am a little pissed off at the hypocracy of liberals in the media. i understand the outrage about the Troy Davis case and how people like Al Sharpton and Barry Scheck were railing against the death penalty in this case, yet
not one peep about the man who
murdered James Byrd in texas. not one sentence condemning texas for the
murder they were about to commit.
we can not pick and choose which cases that we are against the death penalty.
either we are against it in all cases, or we
support it..

I agree that's what I was referring to, not
hardly a word was mentioned leading up to thiis execution and matters none to me if in the Bryd case the murderer was clearly guilty. I doubt though much will be learned from this Troy Davis case....the USA seems to like it's executions.

Peace

pandora

to know evil...

in the case of the murder of James Byrd those men took joy in the killing

a gruesome evil satisfying joy

although we can not say for sure when evil is present in a person
some acts display evil much more than others

a bloodthirsty evil ... it is both a cause and a motive, usually the only,
it is satisfying to kill

Although I am against capital punishment I can understand the outrage for Mr Davis
and the lack there of for Lawrence Russell Brewer

The loss of evil is a gain for good.

loveontwolegs

I AM TROY DAVIS AND I AM FREE.

Very heavy hearted this morning about the injustice. I read on Mother Jones yesterday that some 34% of Americans believe that there are mistakes in the death penalty, and innocent people have been executed, yet they STILL support the death penalty!

Byrnzie

loveontwolegs wrote:

I read on Mother Jones yesterday that some 34% of Americans believe that there are mistakes in the death penalty, and innocent people have been executed, yet they STILL support the death penalty!

That's because the death penalty has nothing to do with justice. It's just blood-lust.

wolfamongwolves

Byrnzie wrote:

loveontwolegs wrote:

I read on Mother Jones yesterday that some 34% of Americans believe that there are mistakes in the death penalty, and innocent people have been executed, yet they STILL support the death penalty!

That's because the death penalty has nothing to do with justice. It's just blood-lust.

I don't agree exactly that it is blood lust. I think it is a desire for revenge. I think that in the minds of death penalty supporters, revenge is justice. It is a tragic and self-defeating categorical error to make. And in many cases, I believe it to be an error stemming from a simplistic, self-serving and decontextualised interpretation of the old eye-for-an-eye adage.

"How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been proper for a tribe of ardent barbarians wandering through the sands of Arabia which are wholly unfit for an enlightened people of civilized and gentle manners." -an attorney general of Pennsylvania in the 1790s

"It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be mutilated. Most societies, however, refrain from responding in this way because the punishment is not only degrading to those on whom it is imposed, but it is also degrading to the society that engages in the same behavior as the criminals."
-Stephen Bright, human rights attorney
http://www.antideathpenalty.org

usamamasan1

MacPhail's son and brother watched the execution in silence. Prosecutors and MacPhail's family said after the execution that justice had finally been served.


Mark MacPhail Jr. was 7 weeks old when his father was taken away. He was asleep in his crib while his father worked security at a downtown bus station to help support his growing family.

RIP Mark MacPhail

gimmesometruth27

usamamasan1 wrote:

MacPhail's son and brother watched the execution in silence. Prosecutors and MacPhail's family said after the execution that justice had finally been served.


Mark MacPhail Jr. was 7 weeks old when his father was taken away. He was asleep in his crib while his father worked security at a downtown bus station to help support his growing family.

RIP Mark MacPhail

that is a tragedy that MacPhail was killed.

i am not surprised in the least by this, but you support and celebrate the killing of the wrong man in this case, and i find that utterly disgusting. there was too much of a reasonable doubt and at the very least it should have been delayed.

brianlux

Troy Davis' execution has been described as a legal lynching. Around much of the world, we are seen as a murdeous, brutal society. A friend from Germany said this morning:

"Yes, I also followed the case of Troy Davis. They 'killed' him this morning. After so much protest around the world. Yesterday I prayed to God for not executing him, but this was not in his hands. Even pro-death-penalty people in the U.S. were against this, how can they kill a man, when 7 of 9 witnesses changed their mind and nothing was really there that showed he was guilty. I don´t understand things like that!!!"

This is how most of the world sees this act. None of us are happy that Mark MacPhail was killed- that was tragic- but killing Troy Davis was wrong. In my opinion, all killing is wrong. This is a dark day in America.

No more killing, no more hate.

brianlux

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

usamamasan1 wrote:

MacPhail's son and brother watched the execution in silence. Prosecutors and MacPhail's family said after the execution that justice had finally been served.


Mark MacPhail Jr. was 7 weeks old when his father was taken away. He was asleep in his crib while his father worked security at a downtown bus station to help support his growing family.

RIP Mark MacPhail

that is a tragedy that MacPhail was killed.

i am not surprised in the least by this, but you support the killing of the wrong man in this case, and i find that utterly disgusting.

+1

mikepegg44

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i am a little pissed off at the hypocracy of liberals in the media. i understand the outrage about the Troy Davis case and how people like Al Sharpton and Barry Scheck were railing against the death penalty in this case, yet not one peep about the man who murdered James Byrd in texas. not one sentence condemning texas for the murder they were about to commit.

we can not pick and choose which cases that we are against the death penalty. either we are against it in all cases, or we support it..

blackredyellow

usamamasan1 wrote:

MacPhail's son and brother watched the execution in silence. Prosecutors and MacPhail's family said after the execution that justice had finally been served.


Mark MacPhail Jr. was 7 weeks old when his father was taken away. He was asleep in his crib while his father worked security at a downtown bus station to help support his growing family.

RIP Mark MacPhail

Unlike a lot of people who seem to be celebrating Troy Davis' death, no one celebrates MacPhail's death.

Idris

blackredyellow wrote:

usamamasan1 wrote:

MacPhail's son and brother watched the execution in silence. Prosecutors and MacPhail's family said after the execution that justice had finally been served.


Mark MacPhail Jr. was 7 weeks old when his father was taken away. He was asleep in his crib while his father worked security at a downtown bus station to help support his growing family.

RIP Mark MacPhail

Unlike a lot of people who seem to be celebrating Troy Davis' death, no one celebrates MacPhail's death.

Well observed and stated..very true,

Y do you think it is like that?..