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Revenge killing is still killing.
Some conservatives deny that they want to impose the Christian version of Sharia on the rest of us, but quote 'an eye for an eye' when asked about their enthusiasm for capital punishment.
There have been two state-perpetrated killings recently.
One man did not claim to be innocent, the other did.
Despite worldwide protests and the doubts expressed by many, including the nations former top cop, Georgia killed Troy Davis anyway.
There were "pervasive, persistent doubts" about his guilt, said William S. Sessions, a former federal district judge in Texas and FBI director under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
"Serious questions about Mr. Davis' guilt, highlighted by witness recantations, allegations of police coercion, and a lack of relevant physical evidence, continue to plague his conviction," Sessions wrote.
In an extraordinary hearing in June 2010 ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court, Davis' attorneys were finally allowed to present evidence of his innocence to a federal judge.
In statement after statement, witnesses from the original trial avowed that they had been coerced by police to implicate Davis in the shooting or had lied in order to secure lenience for their own troubles with the law.
But the judge overseeing the hearing, William T. Moore Jr., decided that in order to overturn the original jury verdict, Davis needed not only to cast doubt on the evidence against him, but to provide "clear and compelling" proof of his innocence.
Is it time for capital punishment to end in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/troy-davis-execution-william-sessions_n_963366.html
Some conservatives deny that they want to impose the Christian version of Sharia on the rest of us, but quote 'an eye for an eye' when asked about their enthusiasm for capital punishment.
There have been two state-perpetrated killings recently.
One man did not claim to be innocent, the other did.
Despite worldwide protests and the doubts expressed by many, including the nations former top cop, Georgia killed Troy Davis anyway.
There were "pervasive, persistent doubts" about his guilt, said William S. Sessions, a former federal district judge in Texas and FBI director under Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
"Serious questions about Mr. Davis' guilt, highlighted by witness recantations, allegations of police coercion, and a lack of relevant physical evidence, continue to plague his conviction," Sessions wrote.
In an extraordinary hearing in June 2010 ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court, Davis' attorneys were finally allowed to present evidence of his innocence to a federal judge.
In statement after statement, witnesses from the original trial avowed that they had been coerced by police to implicate Davis in the shooting or had lied in order to secure lenience for their own troubles with the law.
But the judge overseeing the hearing, William T. Moore Jr., decided that in order to overturn the original jury verdict, Davis needed not only to cast doubt on the evidence against him, but to provide "clear and compelling" proof of his innocence.
Is it time for capital punishment to end in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/troy-davis-execution-william-sessions_n_963366.html