Cop Killer finally gets Justice

[Waltherman]

After a 22 year delay, Lady Justice has finally come to Cop Killer
Troy Davis in the state of Georgia.

May God bless and be with the family of the slain Savannah Georgia
Police Officer Mark McFail,shot in the face in a Burger King Parking Lot
while trying to break up a fight.

 

[27145]

Good riddance

Mumia's The Word - HUMAN EVENTS

 

[Kanewpadle]

22 years too long IMO.

 

[bushmaster1313]

Anyone know the facts regarding possible blood on shorts found in the home of Davis' mother?

 

[old bear]

I take no pleasure in Davis death but I believe that justice was finally served.

 

[redlevel]

Anyone know the facts regarding possible blood on shorts found in the home of Davis' mother?

Just that the evidence was suppressed because it was gained as the result of an illegal search. Police went into her home without obtaining a warrant.

 

[HAWKEYE10]

I take no pleasure in Davis death but I believe that justice was finally served.

I believe as you do old bear. Don

 

[mac2]

just read about it; one of those utterley senseless crimes really

 

[Texas Star]

Lets' see: 7 of 9 witnesses who ID'd him recanted and some claimed police coercion.

Makes one wonder if he was the right guy. It's cases like this that make some oppose capital punishment.

Is there anything that makes his guilt certain? I didn't hear that on the news, but they generally oppose the death penalty and might have omitted it.

 

[oldman45]

Lets' see: 7 of 9 witnesses who ID'd him recanted and some claimed police coercion.

Makes one wonder if he was the right guy. It's cases like this that make some oppose capital punishment.

Is there anything that makes his guilt certain? I didn't hear that on the news, but they generally oppose the death penalty and might have omitted it.

Notice his last words were that he did not kill the man and that he did not have the gun. He did not say he was not there or that he did not have a part in the crime in some way.

Maybe a life sentence would have been an option but then I do not know what evidence was presented at trial. Whatever it was had to be enough to convence 12 jurors that he was guilty and then decide a death sentence was appropriate.

With any execution, there are those that claim the person was innocent. In this case there was a lot of people saying what a good man he was. No matter how bad a person is, there is always some good to the person. It could be that a good man did a bad thing or that he was just mixed in with the wrong crowd.

Whatever the case, the court system decided justice needed to be served and it was.

 

[Stevens]

I believe Justice was done even if delayed 22 yrs.
What burns me is all of the people who spoke out against it so strongly from the Pope, Jimmy Carter, to the French president etc etc.
Where are they when so many victims are murdred, like the officer, or the raped, tortured, and then burned alive family of the Conneticut doctor,
not a PEEP out of them!
Steve W.

 

[FTG-05]

Lets' see: 7 of 9 witnesses who ID'd him recanted and some claimed police coercion.

Makes one wonder if he was the right guy. It's cases like this that make some oppose capital punishment.

Is there anything that makes his guilt certain? I didn't hear that on the news, but they generally oppose the death penalty and might have omitted it.

It wasn't 7 of 9 but 7 of 32 prosecution witnesses.

5 of the 7 didn't recant the basic premise of seeing davis shoot the officer, the other two weren't allowed into the post trial sessions because the defense wouldn't let them - a clear signal that their recantation would have been destroyed on cross.

Don't believe the liberal bullcrap - this *** deserved to die, good riddance.

 

[JcMack]

God said it best. "Thou Shalt not Kill". This moron executed a cop no less. He was convicted of the crime by a jury of his peers 22 yrs. ago. He's managed to live another 22 yrs on our dime. The bill for his stay in jail and the cost of the drugs to execute him should go to his family.

 

[Andy Griffith]

No matter how bad a person is, there is always some good to the person. It could be that a good man did a bad thing or that he was just mixed in with the wrong crowd.

There once was a feller that helped get a whole nation to work.
This leader brought them out of poverty and despair and got them on the road to recovery- building superhighways, encouraging a national spirit and helped get many children off the streets and into youth groups...you could say he was one of the best community organizers ever!

That fellow was Adolf Hitler- a monster.

There have been many unassumingly "nice" people that have committed some of the worst atrocities.

I am terribly ashamed that Georgia does not execute more heinous monsters than Texas- we should fry/hang/execute one death row inmate a day, 365 days a year. That way, we'd be free of death row inmates in...about three months! Fortunately, in Georgia because of the state constitution, the Governor cannot grant a stay or commute a death sentence- so that helps keep just a smidgen of politics out of it. One less politician in the system to "crack" from the flawed emotional state of irrationally thinking protesters.

 

[hannstv]

I was offended by all the hugging and crying after the execution, if they wanted to protest because of opposition to death penalty ok, to say there was enough doubt to change to life in prison maybe ok. To act like we had lost a saint not ok.

 

[redlevel]

The man who prosecuted the case in 1991 makes a convincing argument.

Prosecutor says he has no doubt about Troy Davis' guilt – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

 

[27145]

The witnesses who recanted did so by affadavit, which is a sworn written document. The defense did not call them to the stand to testify. I would suggest because on the stand, the recanters would trip themselves up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Davis_case

 

[DeadAye]

The witnesses who recanted did so by affadavit, which is a sworn written document. The defense did not call them to the stand to testify. I would suggest because on the stand, the recanters would trip themselves up.

Troy Davis case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

They should each be charged with and prosecuted for perjury. Or has the statute of limitations run out on their original testimony - Or does it start over again when they submitted the affidavits?

One way or the other they lied - Either then or now....

On edit:
If they lied back at the trial, then - it would seem - that they would be guilty of murder (?)

 

[celticfisherman]

This was purely the politics of racism. No one was running around crying about the scum bag executed in Texas for dragging a black man to death... That was OK...

 

[Dennis The B]

They should each be charged with and prosecuted for perjury. Or has the statute of limitations run out on their original testimony - Or does it start over again when they submitted the affidavits?

One way or the other they lied - Either then or now....

On edit:
If they lied back at the trial, then - it would seem - that they would be guilty of murder (?)

I believe the clock starts at the time when the affadavits were submitted. It would seem that's when the "crime" was committed.

If they didn't abet in the original crime, they would be witnesses only.