Comments on: UPDATE I: Commute The Troy Davis Death Sentence

By: Mari Tyers

Mari Tyers — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:23:43 +0000

I agree that Davis should not have gotten the death penalty, because the evidence was very circumstantial. I’m not against the death penalty, but I think there should be a higher burden of proof than what currently exists for the death sentence.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:56:00 +0000

Compassionate Fascist: I don’t read Coulter or most other Republican/conservative press, so I can’t comment on her essay. I can’t fault Ilana on her essay either. I do believe that most so called fights for justice are triggered (by whites) against whites in support of other races. World wide, whites are not a majority race- so its not minorities; but, a specific prejudice against a race, with the US as the battleground. Non-white countries execute people all the time without a tremor or protest comment, wiping out whole tribes without more than a mention in the news is common anywhere else.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:29:18 +0000

I am not now nor have I ever been against the death penalty. But I have seen too many instances of apparent prosecutorial and/or law enforcement malfeasance just to get a conviction. I wish I could draw a brilliant conclusion here but I can’t. It’s just a tough call all the way around. I’ll leave it up to Ilana to to wax brilliant.

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:38:56 +0000

Too right, RG. For the facts, look at Coulter’s essay on the (now deceased)cop killer. This heart-bleed by Ilana is not one of her more impressive essays.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:46:08 +0000

This is not in regard to you or the other people who are protesting in regard to the thought that Davis might be innocent; but the ‘anti-death penalty movement itself. One thing that bothers me in this matter. Texas is going to execute a white man for killing a black man (Tonight I think.) “http://news.yahoo.com/white-supremacist-set-die-texas-dragging-174234467.html” I have no problem with Texas giving this guy a needle, but as one commenter on the story noted. The man being executed in Texas is white. Everyone protested the death penalty of the black man in California. Even the President of Mexico protested the execution of the Hispanic for raping and killing two girls in Texas. But, no one says a word about the death penalty for the white man. Maybe the people who are against the death penalty itself are peeking under their blindfolds.

By: CompassionateFascist

CompassionateFascist — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:35:08 +0000

Keep the “facts” the same, switch race: white gunsel kills black cop. Think we’d be getting all this clemancy crap from the MSM cosmics? Think again.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:20:18 +0000

While I vehemently agree with your argument regarding witnesses Ilana, I am not much concerned with Mr. Davis.

His gun was used to shoot two people that same night, although he says he ‘gave’ the gun away earlier in the evening. Huh? He was undoubtedly at the scene of at least the first shooting.

And two people say he confessed to the shooting; one his friend, and the other an inmate (who I admit probably has a conflict of interest given the stupidity of deal-making lawyers).

I do not believe death sentences should depend on eye witness accounts. From the facts as I know them, Mr. Davis is not a good example.

By: Carmen

Carmen — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:35:55 +0000

Here in NZ they had a murder retrial some 15 years after the original. But some specialist quack admitted on TV that there’s a small problem with asking witnesses to repeat their testimonies 15 years later – and no it’s not that they might forget. Apparently, every time the brain accesses a memory it slightly alters that memory. So the more you dwell on certain memories, the more they change. That’s one of the scariest things I’ve ever heard!

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:46:15 +0000

I wonder how much better a hearing Troy Davis would have received by the Pardon and Parole Board if the death penalty did not have so much politics involved. Arnold S. is a bad name in Austria, because he did not commute a sentence in California. Gov. Perry had the President of Mexico interceding in a Texas case. Both of which had clearly guilty parties involved. The amount of anger over the Libyan plane bomber. Now they are in the national news and any decision they make, will be denounced worldwide. If they had been allowed to quietly review the case in private, would they have came to the same decision?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:30:51 +0000

PLEASE NOTE:

http://www.ajc.com/news/parole-board-denies-clemency-1184524.html