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On Protecting The Innocent, Or, Is There A Death Penalty Compromise?

September 23, 2011 By fake-consultant

I don’t feel very good about this country this morning, and as so many of us are I’m thinking of how Troy Davis was hustled off this mortal coil by the State of Georgia without a lot of thought of what it means to execute the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 8th Amendment, aclu, capital-punishment, civil-rights, congress, constitutional-law, death-penalty, georgia, Innocence Project, law, Troy Davis

Abolish the Death Penalty in the United States

September 22, 2011 By liveandletlive

After the state-sanctioned murder of Troy Davis, it's clear that when states are given the freedom to maintain the death penalty they do not use it with the great care and discernment it should be afforded. We cannot be a country that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Amnestyusa, common-sense, death-penalty, Troy Davis

Clemency denied for Troy Davis

September 20, 2011 By liveandletlive

From nytimes.com Rejecting pleas by Mr. Davis’s lawyers that shaky witness testimony and a lack of physical evidence presented enough doubt about his guilt to spare him death, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles ruled on Tuesday … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: death-penalty, justice system, State of Georgea, Troy Davis

Give Troy Davis a new trial.

September 18, 2011 By liveandletlive

I can't believe this happens in America to this day. Troy Davis is set to be executed on September 21st in spite of new evidence that he did not kill police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. He was convicted on witness testimony only; there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: death-penalty, fair trial, physical evidence, Troy Davis, witness testimony

Troy Anthony Davis – A Stay of execution 90 minutes before “the axe was scheduled to fall”

October 5, 2008 By AmberPaw

The Georgia Supreme Court held that it would have to be convinced, beyond a reasonable doubt, by saying: In March, a sharply divided Georgia Supreme Court rejected a request for a new trial by a 4-to-3 margin. The majority said it needed to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: death-penalty, troy-anthony-davis, united-states-supreme-court

A show trial with the death penalty

July 1, 2008 By mike-chelmsford

Open and shut, the terrorist confessed. Nashiri said that while in CIA custody he was tortured into confessing to the Cole bombing and other acts of terrorism. ... Nashiri was one of three terrorism suspects subjected to the controversial … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, cole, death-penalty, national, terrorists, torture, waterboarding

TODAY was the 80th Anniversary of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

August 23, 2007 By AmberPaw

Robert Meeropol spoke; I found this especially affecting as his parents,  Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed in 1953.  He was three when they were arrested, and six when they were executed.  He asked who studies or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: death-penalty, due-process, judiciary, justice, migrants

Flashback: Bush & Gonzales – No stay of execution for severely retarded man

July 3, 2007 By tblade

So, you think it's impossible to feel any more rage towards Bush and Gonzales?  Inspired by cadmium's comment in yesterday's thread on the Libby commutation, I decided to do a quick look at Bush's propensity for leaniancy as Govenor of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ag, bush, cia, death-penalty, gonzales, libby, plame, us-attorney

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