An innocent man may have just been executed in Georgia after Supreme Court denies stay of execution - Polidicks

Okay, I'll rephrase then. I don't want to live in this [I]country[/I] anymore.

[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;32423240]I don't want to live on this planet anymore.[/QUOTE] Good, move to Jupiter, I hear they have great weather in a certain [I]Spot[/I]. oh wait [QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;32423358]Okay, I'll rephrase then. I don't want to live in this [I]country[/I] anymore.[/QUOTE] Because of this [I]one[/I] case? Bloody brilliant.

Not because of just that but because of the countless other shit that America's legal system has pissed on I don't really hear much about bad legal decisions in other countries.

[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;32423514]I don't really hear much about bad legal decisions in other countries.[/QUOTE] ...Really? Could that just be because you haven't looked hard enough? Yeah, the Supreme Court's made up some pretty fucked up decisions, and this one ranks among the biggest fuckups ever, but you're really going to have to explain to me how on earth you can't notice even worse decisions in other parts of the world.

... I must be watching the worst news in the world, I hear the most shit about America. So much so it outweighs any news stories about other countries. Okay, no more of [I]that[/I] channel. I'll pay more attention to more sources in the future before making a stupid comment.

Generally speaking, the state of a nation can be measured. If a nation treats its citizens like shit, it's fair to say you don't want to be in said country - however, generalising our entire species? Yeah, that's stupid. But you can size up the general attitude of a government. [editline]22nd September 2011[/editline] The United States isn't exactly an amazing country to live in.

[QUOTE=Sirdrone536;32422254]And America was appalled because of the Australian tv show segment and ridiculed for being backwards? Hypocrites.[/QUOTE] Oh what show was this out of curiosity?

Just the other week a fellow student at my college approached me and asked me to look into this and sign the petition. D: I'm so sorry to hear he didn't make it. My heart goes out to him and his family as well as anyone else who tried to save him.

So I googled his name to find an article that would inform a friend of mine that hadn't heard of the case about what happened, and this came up [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2040554/Troy-Davis-Justice-served.html[/url] The Daily Mail really is the worst fucking newspaper, written by bastards. This is on par with when they said we shouldn't send aid to Japan after the earthquake/reactor problem because of what they did to POWs in the Second World War.

To kill a mocking bird of the 21st century Pretty sure this music can be used in any situation [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CzcOcBb_ms[/media]

[QUOTE=YouWithTheFace.;32420531]DEATH PENULTY IS A GUD IDEA GAIZ AND ITS ALWEYS RIGHT pretty sad moment for the people who proclaimed his innocence :\[/QUOTE] I support the death penalty, but this was done in complete gross negligence to due process.

[QUOTE=dirty harry;32425422]So I googled his name to find an article that would inform a friend of mine that hadn't heard of the case about what happened, and this came up [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2040554/Troy-Davis-Justice-served.html[/url] The Daily Mail really is the worst fucking newspaper, written by bastards. This is on par with when they said we shouldn't send aid to Japan after the earthquake/reactor problem because of what they did to POWs in the Second World War.[/QUOTE] That was written by an American Broadcaster living in the UK. Also while I agree that the paper and the people who read it are dumb, at least the comments on that particular story are calling it out as bullshit.

[QUOTE=dirty harry;32425422]So I googled his name to find an article that would inform a friend of mine that hadn't heard of the case about what happened, and this came up [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2040554/Troy-Davis-Justice-served.html[/url] The Daily Mail really is the worst fucking newspaper, written by bastards. This is on par with when they said we shouldn't send aid to Japan after the earthquake/reactor problem because of what they did to POWs in the Second World War.[/QUOTE] [quote]There has been a firestorm on Twitter; as if a bunch of people can decide a case better in 140 characters than the American justice system. In Davis's case that included 34 state witnesses (not the 9 the press keep referring to), the jury of his peers including seven blacks and five whites who took less than two hours to convict him, or the many retrials, appeals, calls for clemency and protestations of innocence over the last two decades. ... But I don't see any enlightenment --or indeed consistency-- on the left. The only consistency is the fact that the liberal intellectual elite is secularist, and puts no stock or sacredness in the value of life. They do not protect the lives of the unborn; euthanasia --and not just for the terminally ill-- is toted as an ideal over palliative care; and in the case of heinous crimes they opt to protect the lives of the murderers over the victims. ... The lack of a death penalty in Europe is the product of the fodder of European liberal intellectualism as much as it is a state’s refusal to take responsibility for the protection of its citizens. The abolition of death penalty was not a product of the socialist working class but of the intellectual liberal classes of Oxford and Cambridge in the sixties that hijacked left. It is a product of the same “Civilised Society” of the late Roy Jenkins (who as British Home Secretary nixed the noose in his criminal justice act of 1967), as is abortion and many of the other social problems we suffer with today as a result of the sixties. ... It can also be argued that some crimes, so repugnant and horrific that the death penalty is the only morally appropriate response, particularly to satisfy the families of the victims and to protect the wider community. Capital punishment is punishment for grown up societies -- not cowering in the face of the mass injustice of murder. [/quote] Good god, this man is a massive fuckwit. [editline]23rd September 2011[/editline] It makes me happy to see everybody except one person rip into this idiot in the comments.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;32420939]No, it's not that, it's that people still think we're in the 1950's, there's still racism here but we've made a lot of progress since then, but it's all ignored and suddenly everyone in the south is a skinhead the second anyone even looks wrong at a black person and it makes the news.[/QUOTE] Legally we have tried to make progress, but culturally racism is still deeply ingrained in our society. Without cultural backing, the legal progress is extremely limited. Like the concept of defined punishments? Whenever you hear things like "faces up to X number of years in prison"? It is a race thing. Judges kept throwing Black people in jail for ridiculous amounts of time and giving White people a slap on the wrist. It is also an example of our culture holding back our justice system, because Black people still regularly get the max, while their white counterparts get the minimum. Racism is still a huge, HUGE, problem and southerners, being predominately conservative, are the primary perpetrators.

Abolish death penalty.

[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;32422234]Might have something to do with how strange the whole thing is.[/QUOTE] Shot through the heart with a .38? Good job wearing your vest, genius. It's a .38, it is probably one of the easiest calibers you are likely to be shot at with to stop with a vest.

[QUOTE=MisterMooth;32426234]Good god, this man is a massive fuckwit. [editline]23rd September 2011[/editline] It makes me happy to see everybody except one person rip into this idiot in the comments.[/QUOTE] [quote]It can also be argued that some crimes, so repugnant and horrific that the death penalty is the only morally appropriate response, [B]particularly to satisfy the families of the victims and to protect the wider community.[/B] [B]Capital punishment is punishment for grown up societies[/B] -- not cowering in the face of the mass injustice of murder.[/quote] This guy is such a fucking retard.

Good read right here [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/knxat/for_anyone_interested_in_the_troy_davis/[/url]

[QUOTE=skynrdfan3;32420996]okay but if you think the [B]supreme court[/B] is not going to pardon the man despite all of this evidence, jury members who rescinded their statements, etc. simply because of the color of his skin, yer insane. there has to be another reason they're not telling us.[/QUOTE] "Because, if Superman or Jack Bauer had caught this man, and then been proven liars would you really want to cut the paycheques of policemen." Quoth, the brain of Scalia

I hate saying this, but does anyone have more information on this guy? After the last "innocent" guy got executed, I'm kind of hesitant to think kindly And yeah, I know about the whole black man in georgia thing.

[QUOTE=Zoran;32422266][B]THE LAND OF THE FUCKIN' FREE.[/B] I'm ashamed to live in Georgia.[/QUOTE] It's not a lie. You're free of all the shit once you're dead.

I heard this story. If I remember right, the only real evidence was eye witnesses, because the DNA progress when the crime took place was shoddy. To be honest I do not think he was an innocent man, for some of the eye witnesses were his class mates. It's kind of hard to fuck up remembering what a class mate looks like. [editline]22nd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=GunFox;32426632]Shot through the heart with a .38? Good job wearing your vest, genius. It's a .38, it is probably one of the easiest calibers you are likely to be shot at with to stop with a vest.[/QUOTE] He was wearing a vest, he got shot through the neck. Not the heart. It probably ricocheted through his heart but the point of entry was through the base of the neck.

[QUOTE=Cadaver;32427978]I heard this story. If I remember right, the only real evidence was eye witnesses, because the DNA progress when the crime took place was shoddy. To be honest I do not think he was an innocent man, for some of the eye witnesses were his class mates. It's kind of hard to fuck up remembering what a class mate looks like. [editline]22nd September 2011[/editline] He was wearing a vest, he got shot through the neck. Not the heart. It probably ricocheted through his heart but the point of entry was through the base of the neck.[/QUOTE] "He had been shot twice, once through the heart and once in the face"

[QUOTE=OogalaBoogal;32420605]Simple solution, just stop killing people, and keep them in prison. It costs less.[/QUOTE] No, it costs billions just to keep 3,000,000+ people in prison for a year. Also they should have done way more research, doesn't seem like this poor guy killed anyone, stupid fuckups.

[QUOTE=GunFox;32428043]"He had been shot twice, once through the heart and once in the face"[/QUOTE] Hm, one of my college professors told a different story. Must've been a miscommunication error somewhere.

[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;32421288]well obviously it's bad enough to still be executing innocent black men so, like, I'm not sure what it is you're contending here[/QUOTE] Innocent white men are fair game, though?

[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;32428592]Innocent white men are fair game, though?[/QUOTE] Innocent people of any type shouldn't be getting executed.

[QUOTE=Megafanx13;32428865]Innocent people of any type shouldn't be getting executed.[/QUOTE] People of any type shouldn't be getting executed.

[QUOTE=Capitulazyguy;32428592]Innocent white men are fair game, though?[/QUOTE] leaping to conclusions are we

[QUOTE=Turnips5;32428944]People of any type shouldn't be getting executed.[/QUOTE] Agreed, though a sick hopeless motherfucker is better dead than in an expensive jail cell. I mean I would hardly see someone who killed another person going straight to the death row, but a sick disturbed man who killed and skinned ten kids and that just wants to keep going with it ? Sure, just put a needle in his arm already.