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There’s an execution scheduled in Georgia tonight. Georgia’s certainly no Texas when it comes to meting out final justice, in speed or in volume. Georgia will keep the undertaker from going out of business, though.
Tonight (as of this writing) one more deserving character walks the last mile at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center. His name is Troy Davis, and he’s to die for the murder of a Savannah policeman.
I remember the case, because, in 1989, I was living near Savannah. I grew up in southeast Georgia, and Savannah is where we got most of the news. The Savannah Morning News was the daily paper. When we watched local TV, the closest was Savannah television. And, when we listened to the radio, outside of the local stations (in the same county), almost every other station was a Savannah station.
So, when Troy Davis shot and killed Mark MacPhail, I heard about it. And, when he was tried and convicted in the summer of 1991, I heard about it.
Seems simple, doesn’t it. Young man, high school dropout (did get his GED, though), poor job attendance record, with a criminal record shoots and kills an off-duty policeman who was working security at a fast-food restaurant.
Here’s where it gets … interesting. Davis is black. MacPhail was white.
So, now you have the NAACP, Al Sharpton, and others protesting the upcoming execution. You have PBS talking about the case in a discussion on how race plays a role in death penalty cases. You have the Christian Science Monitor talking about “the impact of race on a jury in the Deep South.”
None of these geniuses bother to consider that, of the 12 members of the jury that convicted Davis, 7 were black. That’s right, a jury that’s 58% black from a city that’s 57% black convicted a black man. And the usual suspects are screaming race discrimination.
Why? Because MacPhail was white. Had be been black, like the other man Davis shot that night (but who survived) you wouldn’t hear about any of this.
So, yes, it’s racial. Only not like they’re making it out to be.
Assuming all goes well, and the state carries out the execution tonight, should we be happy?
Yes.
But not to celebrate a man’s death, though Davis certainly deserves to die. No, we should celebrate that, despite people using race as a battering ram, justice was done. It will have taken entirely too long, but that’s because certain people like to promote their cause, even when it’s without cause.
Very well said, Basil.
Since when is it racist to be tried by a jury of your peers and be found guilty?
When you’re found guilty.
No, not when you’re guilty, but when you’re black.
Justice delayed is justice denied, or some such.
It was humorous watchingon TvV the idiot protesters outside the prison banging drums and chanting. I guess magical liberal chant songs on home made drums drive away the evil death penalty spirits or something.
Where were these clowns when Timothy McVeigh was executed? Because he was white and attacked liberal government that was okay in libveral world. Both McVeigh and Davis were convicted killer bad guys, and deserve the lethal just fate of convicted killer bad guys.
I really, really hope he’s guilty because if it’s found that he’s innocent later that would be every bit as tragic as the death of Mark MacPhail. I’m overall not for the death penalty because there’s too many cases of innocnent people in prison as it is. That being said, I think of the CT home invasion trial and think that the return of public drawing and quartering and/or burning at the stake is perfectly in order. Whatever… the truth is known to the victim, the convicted, and God and they will hash this out in the end.
That right there is Nicolas Cage, baby. More proof he has many clones.
Hormones or not, Carolyn is making sense in addition to the babies. How about punishment and swiftness proportional to certainty and gravity?
Carolyn, I prefer to think of our role as arranging that meeting.
With the extensive appeals process and no shortage of ACLU lawyers ready to take on every case, it is almost impossible in this day and age for someone to be wrongly sent to death for a crime…burn baby burn.
Of course, if you’re in a coma and needing some food like, say, Terry Schiavo, or an unborn child the ACLU and the left are cheering for your death.
He should have killed that backwood redneck bastard. I lived in ga a long timea, and i know all to well how those pigs work. Thank God i never had to deal with them. I soooooo hope They burn Ga to the ground. Need a black Bin Ladin!
Well he got a stay Basil. So the suffering will continue for slain officer’s family. People ignore the fact that he was given a second trial, one in which all the questionable evidence was removed and yet he was still found guilty. Every paper and news agency (including surprisingly FOX) wants this to be about how the poor and non-whites are (still) oppressed in the south. Of all the ones who know the truth, one is dead and the other is free and will probably never face a trial or has spent too much time on the government dime.
I’m not exactly for the death penalty. I believe it should be for child molesters/rapists and those who harm/molest/rape the disabled and be exceptionally painful. But I must say this is a non-issue to distract us while the other side is doing its work.
The candle burning, anti-death-penalty crowd must have forgotten
that James Byrd Jr.’s killer is about to be executed in Texas, I havent heard about their massive protests , anyway..
Good point Terry_Jim where were all those libtard do gooders while this was going on? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44613428/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/?gt1=43001
Jason and TerryJim said it well, though Jason FYI – he didn’t get a stay. He’s exhausted his last appeal to the US Supreme Court. I don’t care about black or white. I hope it is truly a guilty man who is going to his death. I don’t know enough to have an opinion on the matter beyond that.
Thank you, chun. Kindly play on through.
At 11:08 PM, 21 September, 2011, Troy Davis was pronounced dead.
Here in Virginia we are perpetually #2. There are just too many people in Texas for us to adequately compete.
Recidivism rate on People executed, 0%. That’s a good thing.
They should have cut him up for spare parts.
In his 22 years on death row, he never filled out a Organ Donor card?