Georgia, Really ? : The Same Parole Board That Killed Troy Davis

" The parole board in the state of Georgia spared a convicted killer from execution hours before he was due to die by lethal injection on Thursday and commuted his sentence to life in prison. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles made its decision less than three hours before Samuel David Crowe, 47, was to be executed, according to a spokeswoman for the state's prisons. "After careful and exhaustive consideration of the requests, the board voted to grant clemency. The board voted to commute the sentence to life without parole," the parole board said. Crowe's death would have marked the third execution since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty last month. Crowe was not present at the parole board hearing in Atlanta. He had already eaten his last meal and was preparing to enter the execution chamber at the prison in Jackson, Georgia, Mallie McCord of the Georgia Department of Corrections said. In March 1988, Crowe killed store manager Joseph Pala during a robbery at the lumber company in Douglas County, west of Atlanta. Crowe, who had previously worked at the store, shot Pala three times with a pistol, beat him with a crowbar and a pot of paint. Crowe pleaded guilty to armed robbery and murder and was sentenced to death the following year. "David (Crowe) takes full responsibility for his crime and experiences profound remorse," according to Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, an advocacy group, who welcomed the board's decision. At Thursday's hearing, his lawyers presented a dossier of evidence attesting to his remorse and good behavior in jail, according to local media reports. The lawyers also said he was suffering from withdrawal symptoms from a cocaine addiction at the time of the crime. The U.S. Supreme Court on April 16 rejected a challenge to the three-drug cocktail used in most U.S. executions, which opponents claimed inflicted unnecessary pain. Georgia then conducted an execution on May 5. Georgia has executed 41 men since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1973 and this week it had 109 prisoners on death row." - Reuters

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[k5lta]

U N B E L I E V A B L E

[ItsPaiin]

The Georgia parole board is racist. That's all.

[Nubias]

Ain't nuthin but ya regula,but my heart is very sad,I mean come on!  Nothing gets done,the public is so beat down,that they have given up,if this is justice,then it does not exist. If we do not understand that there is a extermination plan in place.... We are freakin doomed.. Wake up,protest this shyt..! And I don't mean March in the damn streets..

[asqual01]

ain't this a bitch, this man was spared his life but troy davis had to die, whats makes this crow guy life more important then davis. Murder is murder, if your going to execute one person for murdering somebody then your should execute them all..you shouldn't be allowed to pick and choose. That's bull shit.

[ministerkareemc]

wow.... wtf.... this is absolutely injustice... this man clearly killed another man... and he gets spared.... all because he said he's sorry... and Troy Davis was innocent of the crime... and he was exucuted... wow...

[YoungGHustler]

F!