This is not a good day in America.
John Amato: CNN and MSNBC are covering the presser after the execution which is awful and will have continued coverage. Fox News is running a rerun of Bill O'Reilly.
Karoli adds: Here's some of the MSNBC video.
Ed Schultz Brings National Attention to Florida Voter Roll Purge
Christopher Hitchens to Andrew Sullivan: "Don't be such a lesbian"
Gingrich: 'I Don't Want to Pay People 99 Weeks to Do Nothing'
Trump: I Would Be the 'Best Choice of All' for Romney's VP
Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
Ed Schultz Brings National Attention to Florida Voter Roll Purge |
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Tucker Carlson: Reporters Have 'Slavish, Dog-Like Loyalty' to Obama |
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John Fugelsang: Only in America Can You Be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-Torture... and Still Call Yourself Pro-Life |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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Church Member Defends NC Pastor: LGBT People 'Worthy of Death' |
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Bill Maher Knocks Liberty University: It Cheapens My Degree From a Real School |
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Compassionate Conservatism: Romney Meets Medical Marijuana Patient |
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Stockman: Romney Can't Say He Learned How to Create Jobs in the Leveraged Buyout Business |
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Krugman: Romney's Business Career is Fair Game |
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Arizona Congressional Candidate 'Pulls a Coffman' |
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NY Fox 5 Crew Pepper Sprayed And Assaulted By NYPD |
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Bill Maher Sends Alexandra Pelosi Out to Interview Mississippi Residents |
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This is Your Brain After Listening to Too Many Right Wing Talking Points on the Debt Ceiling |
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President Obama and AZ Gov. Jan Brewer Share Testy Exchange at Phoenix Airport |
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Are you folks hearing the mans last words?
wrong................. so fucking wrong.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I don't know him, but I believe him. We just killed an innocent man.
And somewhere tonight, 'Baggers are cheering...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
He's innocent. I'll never understand those who cheer on the murder of the "darkies". I don't care how many times they accuse me of bringing up the race card. This country is racist to the fucking core.
As soon as they're done cheering this, they'll go home, turn on FOX and begin lynching another black man...our president.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
needle, I guess I'd be telling the truth-- what else is there to lose?? If I did do it and was about to die, I guess I'd want the family to know the truth, but why lie?
This guy didn't do it.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
There's just too much. He asked God to forgive them. A guilty man doesn't do that. this is so fucked up.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
You nailed it. Makes me sick. So fucking baaaaaaaaad.
I wonder if the cop's family was moved at all to consider the possibility that he didn't do it.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
Where's the "wise latino woman"?
isn't it?
And who cares if she's Latino
will explain their heartless, unconscionable decision on some legal technicality related to whether there was a basis for them to reverse some lower court's decision.
I understand that they could/should just not free a person under these circumstances, but to delay the execution and just keep him in jail ----even for life, if his guilt cannot truly be proven --- would seem within the purview of the justices....I assumed they were human beings. % : (
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Can barely keep the smile off her face...fucking ghoul.
I've never watched a lynching on live TV before, or internet whatever.
This sucks
It does seem a little unreal that the guy's name was "MacPhail".
it's how i cope
... that we consider ourselves such a civilized people, and yet we can kill people on insanely shaky grounds.
Meanwhile, rich white people can fuck the shit out of our lower classes, attach car batteries to testicles, perform extraordinary rendition, loot sovereign nations, and pretty much do anything they want to do, since the system is rigged in their favor.
What was that about this being a "class-less" society, again?
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All.
The United States aspires to democracy, but no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.
America: The last Western industrialized nation to join the civilized world.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
Assuming, of course, that our hyper-individualist, hypo-intelligent nation ever does.
I do have my doubts, based upon a whole lot more credible evidence than was applied to Mr. Davis.
Troy Davis, requiescat in pacem
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
comment. Simple truth.
The questioning is beyond disgusting...HE'S DEAD, GO HOME.
Now is the time to end the death penalty. The world is watching.
for doing. NOTHING.
Obama needed Davis dead. It's not good to get anyone's hopes up.
that the President has no jurisdiction in case like this. Even the Governor of Georgia was powerless. The prison board has all the power in Georgia and I am sure they are all card carrying KKK and Baggers.
...that Obama did everything he could?
and you are using his death as an excuse to simultaneuosly demonstrate your hatred for President Obama and your total legal ignorance.
Show some respect for Mr. Davis.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I'm here to learn.
Which is why I ask questions.
And what I have gathered is that "a person is dead" because the most powerful people in Georgia and the USA demanded it.
Forgive me for asking questions about morality and politics, I thought that was why we are here. Executing an innocent person has everything to do with morality and politics, so just chill bro.
"Obama needed Davis dead" need not tell others to chill. That person needs to get
help for his self delusional state.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
"Obama needed Davis dead." That's a "question"?
Presidents have NO POWER in state cases.
Confirmed: http://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon_instruct...
Conservatives would lambaste Obama for interfering with States rights, being soft on crime while protecting one of his own, etc.
I AM REALLY GETTING FUCKING SICK OF OF YOU CONSERVATIVES/PROGRESSIVE WHITE FOLKS BLAMING EVERYTHING ON THIS GUY.
Clearly Obama did everything in his power to stop this injustice
Tell us. You have all the answers.
me-oww!
The President has no power in these cases, as you've been told several times already, so just what in the holy rolling fuck did you expect him to do? Maybe he should've sent SEAL Team 6 to liberate the guy from the prison! Yeah!
Don't act like such a goddamn moron. People will start to think you really are one.
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
Please don't make jokes about SEAL team 6, as they recently perished in a tragic helicopter crash (right?)
Look, I realize that there are things the President can and can't do. But seriously, be honest, if it were a federal case do you think Obama would have stepped in?
based on a hypothetical circumstance. Thanks for clearing that up for us.
Don't pull 'out of respect' out of your ass. You clearly have none
me-oww!
2nd, I apologize for being a helpless idealist.
You did this on the last "Breaking News" post, you were corrected, and you came back and did it again. If this isn't the worst case of trolling I've ever seen, I don't know what is.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I recognize the fact that legally he could not stop the lynching. I was misinformed on that, and thus I was corrected, thanks.
But I'm just wondering if folks think he would have stopped it if he could, or if it would have been wrong for him to weigh in on it.
Not trying to troll, I've been reading C&L for like 5 years, and I really like the blogging and reporting here.
It was a state case. What he 'would have done if it were federal' is not the topic of this thread.
me-oww!
He's OK with torture and he claimed that Brad Manning was guilty without there ever being a trial. You think that boy is getting out alive? You think Obama cares if he's guilty or not?
That's my real world example, not hypothetical, of how I believe the president operates.
...you haven't heard about Manning being abused since he got moved from the old Marine facility Quantico that didn't have an isolation wing where he could be held safely- do not think there weren't guys in the general population who wouldn't have killed him if they could- to the brand spankin' new facility at Fot Leavenworth, Kansas.
Thst said, it's shitty of you to bring that up on a thread like this. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic at hand.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
nothing he could do is hardly 'Helpless idealism.' It's more like crazy bullshit you want to be true that isn't true. Like I think I'll blame Obama because I'm not 25 anymore. WTF is the guy doing, not turning the clock back for me?
me-oww!
of him saying he supported doing that back in 2003, Miss K.
But back then he was promising to make you 21 if he got a filibuster proof Senate.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Get someone outside of your family to SLOWLY read this to you.
If the President had pardoned this Black man who was convicted of killing a White police officer while doing nothing the same day a White man was put to death for killing a Black man all fucking Hell in racist White America would have broken loose. Furthermore, Troy Davis exhausted ALL OF HIS APPEALS! NOT ONE SINGLE JUDGE DURING HIS LONG APPELATE PROCESS RULED IN HIS FAVOR...OBAMA SHOULDN'T HAVE TOUCHED THIS...we'd have a legal goddamn mutiny on our hands if he had.
This shit is owned by the HISTORICALLY racist state of Georgia.
Yes it is. The people in Georgia responsible for this travesty will never learn because it is too easy to be an ignorant, backward cracker.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
that strategically it would be a mistake for one black man to try to save another black man's life. I just happen to disagree. I'm not trying to call you names or anything so you don't need to resort to that.
I realize that I am pretty naive, but a part of me wishes that there were a President who would publicly weigh in on this racist institutional murder of an innocent man.
Yeah I know, I'm crazy.
....to be a Racism Crusader in addition to the individual laundry list of bullshit every jackass(you asshole) who voted for him.
It's wrong to expect, or even hope for, good things to happen
you aren't very good at this.
me-oww!
...he was the Governor of Georgia or a justice on the federal appeals court or the Supreme Court. It was a state case, not a federal case.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
hasn't the power in his state. Some did have axe handles, though. At least one did.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
...that I'm very proud to have lived my life in a state- Michigan- that has never, since it became a state, allowed the death penalty.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
home rule municipalities in order to turn their parks over to Jack Nicklaus.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
principles, stealing land and killing off the futures of whole towns is not
technically an execution. Just politics......# : {
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
but if he did, the prospect of conservatives lambasting him for... would be no reason for him not to do anything. After all, they do all that anyway. When you're in a damned if you do/damned if you don't situation, you at least have the advantage of choosing how you'll be damned.
I AM REALLY GETTING FUCKING SICK OF OF YOU CONSERVATIVES/PROGRESSIVE WHITE FOLKS BLAMING EVERYTHING ON THIS GUY.
That's really pathetic for at least a few reasons. Seriously, what's the payoff? What do you expect the payoff from the bare fact of Obama's presidency to be?
You have zero fucking idea what the fuck you are talking about.
Read my comment again, cultist. I didn't say it is the Leader's fault that Troy Davis was executed.
And how the fuck did you derive from my supporting Obama qualifies me as a "cultist"?
I think you're one of those closeted progressive-bigots who accuse Black people who stand by Obama of being under some type of spell.
You have no clue to how much I truly don't give a fuck what you think.
that some black people who are among Obama's most rabid devotees appear to be under some kind of spell. They're not, really. They've just pinned all their aspirational hopes (and their racial insecurities) on Obama, who, when you get right down to is, is a transient figure who won't have any significant effect on the arc of black success in this country.
I don't see how this is Obama's matter either.
Obama has earned a lot of criticism, but this is way off the mark.
These things are usually left to the states.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
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Obama's support from Black voters hasn't wavered....his problems at the polls(and I'm not saying that some of it isn't justified) is mainly from White voters.
We need to stay away from this white hood and cross state. These people are despicable.
Waaaaaay ahead of ya.
Ah, ah, so this is what it's like to share the same existance of Aristotle, of Plato, of Jesus, of Mahomet, of Ghandi...yes, this is what it is like to share that same existance with fellow creatures that think it's best to set an example than to get it right.
are so suspicious of the efficiency of government, except when it comes to killing people, when they are sure they are 100% correct and competent.
And they value life so much...yeah right.
WTF is wrong with this country?
"What is right?"
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The government.
And man, are they ever right.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
You want the long or the short list?
NOBODY 2012
...the Private Prison racketeers launch pay-to-view executions on cable TV, courtesy of Fox (of course).
Stop kidding yourselves, America.
In the eyes of the World (including those of your erstwhile military allies), you're the bad guys now.
Shame on you for allowing this to happen.
He's Gone
"Steal your face right off your head..."
:(
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Disguised as a grotesque form of "justice." And so the cycle of violence continues, never to end. And neither will our effort to stop this barbarism.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
We are no better than wild apes. Truly, tonight is proof. Some supreme court, bah! Exceptional my ass!
Wild apes are waaaaay better than us, always have been. Let's not denigrate gibbons, chimps, bonobos, gorillas & orangutans plz
sapience. Good sense of place on the old pecking order as well. But do speak for yourself.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Speak on behalf of Georgia.
Here in Michigan, we were the first state to outlaw the death penalty - in the 1850's!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
But before we all go about the business of condemning the Supreme Court, it's worth noting that they could only rule on potential errors of law as presented in the petition.
Don't assume they had free reign to rule on the facts of the case. I assure you they didn't. That's why the lower court's ruling was so devasting, and why the parole board's ruling was even more devastating.
But as John said, the press conference was awful, beginning with the official who said it was a routine execution.
Exactly what is a routine execution? If it's routine, it should stop immediately. When it's totally normal to inject drugs into someone so they die after they've been checked to be sure they're healthy enough to die and put on suicide watch to make sure they're not guilty of killing themselves first, what exactly is routine about this?
motion for a stay. Thanks in part to Nicole, who I think was acting on good faith, we have been treated to some vitriolic comments based on the presumption the denial was a unanimous decision.
Those interested in facts can read it here. It is unsigned and without mention of a vote. It is my understanding there is never mention of or record of a vote on such motions, but I could be wrong.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorder...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
to add to their anger over the death of Davis by heaping scorn on a President or a prominent Democrat to further their need for righteous indignation.....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
has become Saudi Arabia, Iran, cold war Soviet Union. I am truly disgusted with the direction this country is taking, politics instead of justice. People cheering the death penalty what are we ancient Rome? I think it's time for a little popular uprising. Killing a man who in all likelihood was innocent with so much doubt about the veracity of the evidence is criminal. If sometime in the future his innocence is proven beyond a doubt his killers must be held accountable...
A small mind is easier to lose...
We actually have a lot less of this kind of cheering than we did in the past, when executions took place in the public square.
And it's not like we started doing that all on our own. This is a tradition that goes back thousands of years, and all over the world. I'd be willing to bet everything I have that if executions were legalized again in the UK or France, you'd see some part of the population cheering on an execution such as this one. Hell, it wasn't all that long the the people of those nations did just that.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Sadly this outcome was pre-ordained. Politically speaking there was nothing to gain from staying the execution and everything to gain from ending him. Georgia is GOP from the top all the way down to the tiny towns. If the last few years have shown anything, it is the utter lack of sympathy or concern that GOP politicians have for anyone but their rich friends. Troy Davis did not fall under that category. And before people say there will be consequences, I point out that those that care most about this case (African Americans, 20 somethings, etc) are those that typically vote least. The scared white people will be glad a black guy bit it and will vote once again for the GOP, no questions. Those most against it will pout about how Obama didn't do anything and decide to sit it out. Repeating 2010 to the GOP advantage once again. So for GOP its a simple win-win situation.
His poor family.
Everyday I find myself shaking my head. I just never believed I would find myself living in such dark times surrounded by such venal people.
Our poor country. I am relieved my parents are gone and did not live to see how far we have back-tracked. Sadness. Just sadness.
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss
So where is the outrage over government interfering in people's lives?
whilst listening to the so-called 'press conference' in the prison parking lot after the execution in the background.
I was thinking about the amazing juxtaposition of the two main events of the day >>>
>> In the Middle East, two young innocent Americans who had been held by the 'Big Boogie Man of Iran' for supposed espionage after they wandered across a desert border - Were Released and sent home. I know that money was paid to help get them released - but Ak-ma-job and his cronies Could have held them in prison of executed them. If they had - we'd already be bombing the crap out of Iran, or at least placing extreme 'sanctions' on them.
>>In the United States of America, the land of Freedom and Justice For All, in the state of Georgia, the whole damn state justice system could not find or even try to find a way to just stop the execution of a Black man who so very many people agree is probably innocent of the crime he was convicted of. Not to set him free tonight.....just to stop the killing and take more time to make sure they were correct. He's been in that jail for 20 years - keeping him locked up for a few more in order to actually Let Justice Prevail seems like a plausible and right thing to do.
So, it is a conundrum. The Christian nation carries on with the bloodlust for executing mainly Black citizens; the Muslim nation shows mercy on their enemy......
Is this a great country, or what?
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Yes, where was the christian community on this one? They were all over the Schiavo woman like white on rice. All that loving your enemy, sanctimonious all life is sacred stuff I have to listen to all day long. Where exactly was the church? This was a perfect opportunity for them to do the christian thing and save a human life.
I've seen idiots on another board stating their certainty Davis was guilty, because the jury found him so, and trying to take the tack that the jury was multi-racial.
The jury found the man guilty based upon the faulty evidence they were presented. The prisons' board and the SCOTUS bear the karma for sending this man to the other side. With Sciavo and just about any abortion-related matter, it seems that the right uses the argument of "beyond any doubt whatsoever;" yet, when it is a non-white, non-wealthy person convicted of a crime, the standard never applies.
No, I don't think the conviction was necessarily racially-motivated, but it is obvious that the execution was an example of the current of lazy, casual racism that runs through our society... one doesn't have to wear a robe and pointy hat, or run around getting a sunburned head yelling "RAHOWA" to be racist, and it is the genteel, casual brand that is the most deadly and virulent.
I grieve, not for some fantasy of what we "used to be," but, rather for what we could be, and have thus far failed to become.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Every last one of them that had the power to stop this insanity, made a premeditated choice to have this man murdered. Each and every one of them should be charged, convicted, and sentenced for the capital offense of 1st degree murder.
http://www.thealders.net/blogs
Just call me Dazed & Confused
If Savannah police hadn't believed the first man to point the finger they might have realized that finger had been the one on the trigger when he was pointing a .38 at a cop instead.
We would have been spared this agony, yet another black man would be dead.
In the name of justice. And few among us would have cared, cried, or commented.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
...but true.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Jasper, Texas was also executed tonight. Still don't make the death penalty right.
With that, Andy, goodnight.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Goodnight.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
I agree, ricky. Once I got beyond the understandable visceral response, my common sense prevailed and I grieved for our nation taking one more step down the stairway to hell.
And, as someone said yesterday, these people have confused justice with revenge, and our public policy is based on visceral responses, despite our Founding Fathers' attempt to base it on law.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Billie Holiday - Strange fruit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnlTHvJBeP0
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
And the whole world is watching...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/21/3...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It is the XXI century, and the "freest" and most "civilized" country in the world still executes people out of the world's largest inmate population.
Fucking shame.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
We also have museums which display dionsaur rodeo's.
"Rope a Rex, tame a Tops; ride a brontosaurus to Palin's next stop."
U.S.A.....,U.S.A.......,U.S.A...........................,
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
of this man strikes me more as a statement by the good ole boys in Georgia that uppity blacks and dirty hippies are not going to do or say anything that can change our minds when we've made a decision. I read a great article in New York magazine about a white man, more than likely innocent, executed years ago in Texas for an arson fire that killed his three children. The arson investigators had little training or experience, and when a real arson investigator took the case pro bono and found one mistake after the other in their findings, no one cared. Texas review board has changed their minds only once, to my knowledge, out of hundreds of opportunities.
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
They are animals. They will be left behind on the tree of evolution, god willing, and a kinder, smarter, gentler human being will take their place. I think we are witnessing their final battle for survival in a world that is becoming fully aware and sentient despite them. We are transcending them, but we are passing though a difficult phase - they have infiltrated government in order to hang onto power and influence in a world that is rejecting them.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
No mercy shall be given. I hope these conservative fuckers remember that when their number comes up.
that this happens everyday, quietly and with only the barest note. Or that it happens publicly, and all can see how powerless we are to prevent it.
Seems the Georgia Board has it backward: they think it's better that ten innocent men die than that one guilty man goes free.
It's "routine."
Just another day at the office. Go 'bout yur' business and don't pay no heed.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
What is absolutely unacceptable is that Scalia has stated before that occasionally executing an innocent man is perfectly acceptable in his judgement. The ol' close enough for government defense.
I don't know what the constitution says about public executions,but I personally feel that no state has the just cause to take the life of a citizen. Hey, life in prison without the possibility of parol is fair justice for taking the life of a citizen. I fail to see how dying of natural causes in prison would not be considered the ultimate sanction.
'Talk to the hand'
I must admit that I had no hope that the Supreme Court would have ordered a stay of Davis' execution. The current Supreme Court has to be the most right-leaning, pro-corporate Supreme Court we've had in generations. Hope for mercy from a Supreme Court staffed by the likes of Scalia, Roberts, Clarence "Uncle"Thomas? Please! You might as well hope for mercy from the Chamber Of Commerce.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
...REMEMBER we are a CHRISTIAN NATION! And an ignorant one so we don't have to be able to read the bibble that explains how that should work!
I though they had a stay of execution for 1 week?
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/democr...
Second sentence in the first paragraph:
"He can, however, still be executed during that time if the Georgia authorities so choose"
authority to stop this injustice should have been the ones to carry it out. It's shameful, and embarrassment. What kind of justice system allows this?
The 3 of the 5 members of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles could hold the needle. As if that's not enough reasonable doubt.
"I've never pictured Hell as a place of fire, sulfur and demons with pitchforks, I've always imagined it as a place of excess and broken dreams and hopes."
"Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies."
— Leonard Peltier (Prison Writings)
He was murdered. Casey Anthony was acquitted because of lack of evidence. But Davis dies WITH a lack of evidence? The supreme court gave their quick decision with no explanation, then ran away. The white house was silent and didn't lift a finger in this. There's no such thing as justice.
NOBODY 2012
I am not necessarily against the death penalty as I think it would have a place in lobbyist/swinging door reform if we were fortunate enough to be able to vote for someone other than a corporate shill, but this case in particular is very sad.
Who actually thought the Extreme Court would do anything to seek justice for a black man in a confederate state? They were simply sticking their nose in this to assert their supreme rule of the land to let you know that if they were not right-wing extremists, they could have actually made an effort at looking at the evidence and were they objective, would have determined that Georgia was about to commit a hate crime. Blacks who live in Georgia have found out that their state government can, not only incarcerate you for decades for no apparent reason, they can murder you too.
I expected Obama to do absolutely nothing when it comes to justice.
"When you're president -- as opposed the head of a private equity firm -- your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot." - President Barack Obama
This is a state matter, and even the governor has limited say here, It was all up to the Georgia Parole Board. Obama couldn't do anything about this -- unless of course you wanted him to declare martial law and occupy Georgia. (Or maybe you want to start another Civil War.)
3 of 5 guys decided. 3 of 5... Really poor odds to kill somebody for. They probably slept well.
issue.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
The whole word watched in horror as once again America failed miserably to rise and defend justice. The death penalty needs to be abolished in each and every one of our states.
A special shout-out to Amy Goodman and Democracy Now for the hours of compassionate, accurate coverage they provided in a world of darkness on MSM. True journalism at its best.
RIP Troy Davis
I am Troy Davis
Stand up people!!!
knowing they had rid the world of one more innocent black man.
...I think it should be reserved for the most heinous cases & the standard of proof would be EXTREMELY high-you would have to have the murder caught on crystal clear video, & you would have to have a mountain of stuff like DNA evidence to execute someone, otherwise they would get life in prison. In practical terms, it would be nearly impossible to execute ANYONE. What harm would there have been if they had commuted this sentence to life in prison? If it turns out that Davis was actually innocent, they could always have let him out. Now they can't. What is the state going to say? OOPS, Our Bad? THIS-IS-AN-OUTRAGE!!!
If he was still in prison they might have to continue investigating, once he's dead, problem solved, or as they say, case closed. Simple expedience.
Georgia, no doubt the true killer of officer MacPhail thanks you.
Got to keep your political supporters happy with another death hah?
Fucking murderers!
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
We may not have the real killer, but somebody paid for the murder of Officer MacPhail.
Oh, yes... they made sure someone paid, and paid dearly...
Their idea of justice used to be called revenge, didn't it?
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
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