Was the execution of Troy Davis Cruel and Unusual?
Yes but not in this barbarous, bloodthirsty, callous, godforsaken country. People DO NOT matter, one less non-voter DOES NOT matter. It's all a game to those who hold power (Mostly the Republicans but not all.). Troy Davis was executed last night and I'll bet those who believe they'll benefit by the decision to execute (i.e. SCOTUS, Rick Perry, Nathan Deal and the rest of the cutthroats who support the DEATH PENALTY) are dancing in the streets... I hope there will be justice for Troy Davis and that he did not die in vain. Perhaps, this will be the beginning of the end for this savage law.
According to Amnesty International, 137
countries have abolished the death penalty. Argentina, Chile, and
Uzbekistan outlawed the death penalty in 2008. During 2007, 24
countries, 88% in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the
United States alone, executed 1,252 people compared to 1,591 in
2006. Nearly 3,350 people were sentenced to death in 51
countries. More than 20,000 prisoners are on death row across the
world.
Read more: The Death Penalty Worldwide http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html#ixzz1YgBVLE7S
Troy Davis has now joined the ranks of:
Executed But Possibly Innocent.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executed-possibly-innocent
Doesn't this life hold enough sadness
without STATE SANCTIONED MURDER? :-( thinkingblue
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Troy Davis Executed in Georgia
—By Tim Murphy
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty/Wikimedia Commons
Despite evidence that threw into question the veracity of his
conviction, pleas from a former president and the Pope, and even
a last-minute review of the case by the US Supreme Court on
Wednesday night, Troy Davis was executed by lethal ejection
shortly after 11 p.m. on Wednesday evening in Georgia.
Davis, whose case we wrote about in full detail here, was
convicted on 1991 on charges that he murdered a Savannah police
officer. Davis had put off eating his final meal in the
expectation that he would be granted a stay of execution—as
he had three times before in the past—but by Wednesday
morning, he had exhausted all of his options, and a standing
offer to submit to a polygraph test was rebuffed by the Georgia
Board of Pardons and Paroles. The final lethal injection was
delayed for more than three hours as the state waited to hear
from the United States Supreme Court (which dismissed the appeal
without dissent). MORE HERE
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/troy-davis-executed-georgia
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IS THE DEATH PENALTY CONSTITUTIONAL?