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Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision (Amy Goodman)

http://www.truthdig.com/report/it...y_davis_and_the_supreme_decision/

Excerpt:

Troy Anthony Davis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday. Two hours before the state of Georgia was to execute him, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay until Monday. It had earlier agreed to hear Davis’ case on Sept. 29, but Georgia set his execution date six days before the hearing.
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Among Davis’ defenders is former President Jimmy Carter. He said: “This case illustrates the deep flaws in the application of the death penalty in this country. Executing Troy Davis without a real examination of potentially exonerating evidence risks taking the life of an innocent man and would be a grave miscarriage of justice.” Georgia Congressman John Lewis also supports Davis. I spoke with Lewis at Invesco Field in Denver, just before Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. It was 45 years to the date after the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Lewis recalled that historic day: “We were in Washington, more than 250,000 of us, black and white, Protestant, Catholic, Jews, people of different background, rich and poor. ... In many parts of the South, people could not register to vote, simply because of the color of their skin. And we changed that.”

Yet this week, in light of Davis’ plight, Lewis told me: “In spite of all of the progress that we’ve made as a nation and as a people, we still have so far to go. The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in every corner, in every aspect of the American society.” He went on to say, when I pointed out that Sen. Obama himself supports the death penalty: “It is troublesome. You know ... someplace along the way, some of us must have the courage to say—and I’m moving closer and closer to this point—that in good conscience, I cannot and will not support people who support the death penalty. I think it’s barbaric, and it represents the Dark Ages. .... I don’t think as human beings, I don’t think as a nation, I don’t think as a state, we have the right to take the life of another person. That should be left for the Almighty to do.”

Sharon Froehlich · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject: Troy Davis

This has become a case of racism, pure and simple. it is evident that Troy Davis is innocent. We love to pretend that there is no racism in America. but one look at this case shows us up as liars.
I am against the death penalty anyway, just one chance an innocent man could be executed is one too many. But why, I ask, must an innocent man spend his life in prison? There is no way this is right.
Justices, search your hearts as well as your lawbooks! Troy Davis should be set free.
Sharon

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