For those who are so quick to condemn the Muslim people for acts of violence, then turn around and cheer for the executions of our fellow Americans is horrific to me. I am not an advocate for the death penalty, and surely NEVER ever should a man be executed with ANY doubt about their guilt. This Troy Davis trial was FULL of doubt, yet this man is going to die tonight. Sick fuckin sick USA...
Just found this on Facebook::
Killer spared from death hours before execution
Samuel David Crowe in an undated photo. LOOK, he's WHITE and CONFESSED to murder!!
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. REUTERS/Georgia Department of Corrections/Handout Related Topics U.S. » By Matthew Bigg ATLANTA | Thu May 22, 2008 7:49pm EDT (Reuters) -
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.
SO, ya think Georgia is a RACIST state??
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Well, at least we can be content in the fact that, at least according to Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Thomas, executing an innocent man is not unconstitutional.
It is a sad day for justice, it is a sad day for the Supreme Court, and it is a sad day for America who has forsaken her principles.
we will be known around the globe as the country who kills her own, even though there is doubt about guilt. How shameful for us!! This will be good for campaign debate, I know some will dispute me but I believe this is a white/black, and Left/Right issue! All the prominent people who came out to support Davis were ignored by the racist Georgian people responsible for his murder.
Guilty even if proven innocent: justice in America.
Georgia can execute a man when there is reasonable doubt, how sick are we as a country? Fuck it all, this is NOT JUSTICE...
In 2003, the political climate in Georgia changed direction after over a century of a better one. I wonder what would have happened if this had not happened.
Well Sue I was following your train of thought until you brought in the Muslim crap.
Perhaps you ought go to the Muslim world and witness the honor killings of young women, see first hand the second and third class standing women hold in much of the Muslim world, or see women killed for just being accused of committing adultery. The list is much longer, I'm sure you could Google it.
I share your skepticism and believe a stay should have been granted.
It would have been far more effective calling out the S.C. and the failure to act in a proper judicious manner based on objective reasoning and calm cool criticism than the emotional American hating way you did.
Of course just my opinion. I'm sure there are many wh'o would agree.
I have no clue what in God's name is going on in America. Tea baggers cheer the death of a hypothetical guy with no health insurance. There were certainly enough questions about Davis' guilt that his sentence should have been commuted.
Our politicians are so paranoid over reelection that it's better to execute a possible innocent black man rather than risk losing the votes of people that hate black men.
"we will be known around the globe as the country who kills her own"
Number one headline item in the major metropolitan news here this afternoon...
After so many cases of people being proven innocent after spending years or decades in prison, it should be obvious that there are serious flaws in the system.
Nothing can be done for Davis now, but we can still do something for the Davises of the future -- by working to make sure that the people whose mentality led to this, are not given power next November.
It all goes hand in hand RN, in my humble opinion....
It's all so sad and hard to understand So many stood up and said this was a terrible injustice, yet they were ignored. It's almost like those responsible were on a mission to prove something. All they proved was their incompetence and their racism cuz you can bet your ass a white man would never have been executed in Georgia when there is a shred of doubt...so there RN, these are the same people who spread fear about Muslims.
I'm thankful for people like Al Sharpton who will speak about this on Capitol Hill.
Capital Punishment.... is ... very... expensive. Most republicans should want to abolish it.... save lives and money... punishment can be just.... and there are those who should never see freedom again.... but there must be something better?
Mark Osler, Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas Law School, Minnesota,is a former federal prosecutor and the author of "Jesus on Death Row," a book about capital punishment:
"...mercy, is also an explicit part of the Constitution. The federalists insisted on the inclusion of the pardon power, for example, for the express reason that it gives the system some outlet for this core virtue. (In Davis' case, it is the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole that had the power to grant clemency).
The first signer of that Constitution was George Washington, who then lived out the virtues of that Constitution as president. He was literally the commander-in-chief; when the Whiskey Rebellion arose in western Pennsylvania, he personally led the army to quell the rebels, astride a white horse. Just as importantly, living out the constitutional virtue of mercy, he pardoned those rebels who were sentenced to hang for treason.
The Troy Davis case shows us a truth: We have wandered too far from our own best virtues.
If we are to err, let it be on the side of deliberation and mercy, rather than the unsettling finality we have seen pursued by the state of Georgia. Should we choose those better virtues, we might all sleep better."
Where are the TPers who so love the Founding Fathers? The "Father of our Country," George Washington, pardoned men accused of treason against the United States.
Where's the TP outcry against the injustice done to Troy Davis?
Capital Punishment is revenge, not justice.
The governor of Georgia does not have the power to grant clemency, as in the Troy Davis injustice...BUT former Governor Sonny Perdue was able to "PACK" the Parole and Pardons board with members that IGNORED FACTS and REASONABLE DOUBTS and opened the door for Georgia to execute Troy Davis with nothing but eye witness account.
Well, shuck Shaw. I was just getting ready to post that. An excellent article and I hope folks read it.
In Davis' case, it isn't just a case of murder. His treatment has been nothing short of barbaric. I don't feel I'm overstepping by calling it torture.
Perhaps you ought go to the Muslim world and witness the honor killings of young women, see first hand the second and third class standing women hold in much of the Muslim world, or see women killed for just being accused of committing adultery. The list is much longer, I'm sure you could Google it.
Perhaps RN can head down to Oklahoma City and visit the site of the Murrah building, which had a day care center on its premises. While he's there in Oklahoma, perhaps he can travel down to Elohim City, and speak with some of the very people who were thick as thieves with Tim McVeigh.
And, using his own interpretation that I quoted above, then he can come back and explain to us why Christians think that killing babies is an appropriate way of registering one's displeasure with the Federal Government.
"Georgia is a racist state" is far, FAR, too broad a condemnation. Yes, there are obviously racist elements and, yes, there are racist individuals in it but a state that also has Emory University, Georgia Tech, and which is the home of CNN and a former U.S. President shouldn't be so cavalierly slandered like this. To use the words of our current U.S. "genius" President, "use a scalpel."
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