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Troy Davis Execution



The Georgia Parole Board denied clemency to Troy Davis who was convicted of murdering a police officer in 1989 However new DNA evidence suggests Davis may be innocent
Sitting behind razor wire and thick concrete walls, Troy Davis spent what may be his final hours Wednesday with friends and family, awaiting his execution at 7 p.m. for the murder of a police officer over 20 years ago, a crime he maintains was committed by another man He was in good spirits after he received news that a final plea for clemency to a state pardons board had been rejected "He is steadfastly maintaining his innocence, as he always has
Davis's pending execution has sparked an extraordinary outcry nationally and internationally that continued Wednesday, with thousands of people expected to participate in evening protests and vigils at Georgia's death row prison and the state capitol. By early afternoon, dozens of protesters were already singing and praying in a small cordoned-off area on the prison grounds Earlier this week, the state's pardons board was bombarded by hundreds of thousands of petitions to spare Davis's life, including calls from former FBI director William Sessions and Bob Barr, a four-term Republican congressman from Georgia and death penalty supporter Many of those opposed to the execution noted the lack of physical evidence tying Davis to the crime and the recantation of critical eyewitness, many of whom told attorneys for Davis that they had been pressured by police to testify that Davis was the shooter
"Imposing an irreversible sentence of death on the skimpiest of evidence will not serve the interest of justice," Barr wrote in an editorial on the case last Wednesday
On Wednesday morning, Davis offered to submit to a lie detector test, but the request was denied by prison officials
The Davis defense's last-minute petition to the Superior Court was rejected by a state judge late Wednesday afternoon As the hours until the execution dwindled, calls for clemency continued from around the nation and the world, including from a group of former death row wardens, who wrote to Georgia authorities calling on them to halt the death sentence due to doubts about Davis's guilt Among the group was the former warden in charge of the Georgia death chamber While most of the prisoners whose executions we participated in accepted responsibility for the crimes for which they were punished, some of us have also executed prisoners who maintained their innocence until the end," the wardens wrote in a press release. "It is those cases that are most haunting to an executioner
Meanwhile, the family of the murdered policeman, Mark MacPhail, and the case's original prosecutor have argued strenuously for Davis's execution, and have asserted that there is no doubt that he is guilty of the murder Joan MacPhail-Harris, the officer's widow, said this week that Davis "has had ample time to prove his innocence" and failed to do so She and MacPhail's children urged the pardons board to deny Davis's petition for clemency this week and plan to attend the execution

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[MrSpookeyspook]

Just one less groid we have to feed in prison. Maybe they can send a few more down the same road and we can save a few dollars in animal maint.

[dukemozilla]

we can only hope the devil hates niggers. then this piece of shit will do in hell what he didn't do on earth. suffer for his crimes

[EnglishWhitePride]

@germaniajim2 We Brits should never have tried to colonise the Dark Continent, because groids are beyond help. Their IQs are so damn low that no amount of education can help them. The Chinks and the Indians have at least learnt to copy Western technology and are able to comprehend Western physics, maths and chemistry to lift their respective countries out of the Stone Age and are now advancing pretty rapidly. But Negroes are just too DUMB. We should NOT have tried to civilise the uncivilisable.

[scoprios]

@Bastardo927 Blacks may not out number in YOUR country but collectively. globally WE out number you. White People are only 8% of the worlds population which is another prophecy. When did the Jews go into captivity for 400 years by way of ships? THEY DIDN'T , THEY HAVE NOT YET! When did the HEBREWS go into captivity for 400 years by way of ships? Don't say in Egypt cause they walked into Egypt 70 persons strong. we ARE STILL IN CAPTIVITY BY WAY OF SHIPS SINCE 1619. TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE.

[scoprios]

@Bastardo927 WE are not Ancient Egyptians, even though they were Black Hamites, We were enslaved by them/delivered by the hand of our God via the Red SEA. We are not culture stealing because we speak the truth. Hebrew Israelites and Jews are not the same. Hebrew Israelites are Gods' Chosen, scattered around the world by way of the HUGE Arab/Transatlantic Slave Trade, in captivity in the last days until God delivery us AGAIN. Read the scriptures.  "JEWS" are impostors, fake wannabe Hebrew.

[Bastardo927]

@scoprios And blacks DO NOT outnumber whites in my country, so if there were an uprising you would soon enough find how utterly fucked you are. And you ARE NOT Hebrew Israelites either, that would be the Jews. If anyone is God's chosen then it is them.

Now, let me ask you something. Can you name a single modern day predominantly black country that IS NOT a 3rd-world shit-hole? Yeah, I didn't think so.

[Bastardo927]

@scoprios You sub-Saharan monkies are not Hebrew Israelites! Here we have yet another example of you trying to claim others culture. Next you will say you are descendants of the ancient Egyptians, LMMFAO! But its ok, I understand why you do it. It's because you see the futility of your race and so desperately wish you were something else. You look to other cultures and vague scriptures in hope of finding solace. As for the census, if you think thats its purpose then you are a fucking retard.

[scoprios]

@Bastardo927 Really, you need to stop the hatred of your heart and do some real soul searching/get a burden for truth, before you die in your sin/ your family as well, needlessly. What is your HATRED (ooh I mean RACISM) based upon? Do you really know? It's just there, right? It's genetic? I would have to question why I hate a race of people based upon what? Did countless million do personal harm to you or your family? Read your scriptures more closely, pray and God will give you understanding.

[scoprios]

@Bastardo927 If you were a bible reader at all, you would know that Ham's son Canaan was cursed/ NOT Ham. The Canaanites are cursed, they are the servants of servants. Servants does not necessary mean slaves, Mr. Bastardo. Also CURSED in the BIBLE are many but in the case of Canaan and ESAU it is color of skin. Look at what Leprosy truly mean and you will find yourself a clean LEPER. So don't go telling folk Niggers (Hebrews) are Ham and are Cursed. White is not the standard, remember that.

[scoprios]

@Bastardo927 The "Negroes, Blacks, Africans, Afro-Americans, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Haitians, Afro-Jamaicans, Afro-Pueto Ricians, Afro-Euro-Britain's, Afro-Euro Spaniards, Afro-Euro Portugal, Afro-Euro Russian, Afro Europeans, Afro-Indo Indians, Afro-Iranians, Afro-renamed by ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, are not from the Linkage of Ham.. WE are from the linkage of SHEM. We are Hebrew Israelites a forgotten nation, scattered and renamed by our twin brother, Esau Chiefly, as prophesied PS 83.

[scoprios]

@Bastardo927 To keep up with our growth in the light of your dread/terror (genocide) on your twin brother, Jacob. Have you asked yourself the question, Why is your (Wht Man) hatred directed to the Negroes world wide, chiefly/not the Japan, China, or even the Real Africans, the Mexicans? Because you are Esau/your hatred is for your twin brother Jacob, us coons, niggas, us baboons. Ah Ah Ahaha Gods chosen will never be extinct, you have been trying to wipe us out since our grandpa Issac died.

[scoprios]

@Bastardo927 All the truth I have thrown to the swine and this is the same response we all get from our twin bother, Esau. Have you read the bible or have you relied on heresy> Keep relying on your kind media and stats. Blacks out number whites all the day long. The prophecy to multiply to where our seed will reach the number of the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea belong to US, Jacob, the Hebrew Israelites. Why do you think you all keep taking Census every 10 years? To keep up with..