Spare Troy Anthony Davis
ACT to stop this state killing now:
Please call on the Board to commute the death sentence of Troy Davis.
APPEALS TO:
State Board of Pardons and Paroles 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, SE, Suite 458 Balcony Level, East Tower Atlanta, Georgia 30334-4909 Fax: 1 404 651 8502 Email: webmaster@pap.state.ga.us Salutation: Dear Board members
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“Why is ‘closure’ more important that justice? Why is error always ‘harmless’?” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why is Error ‘Harmless’?
Again I ask the question:
Why is compelling evidence of actual innocence prevented from a hearing, if the system is hell bent on justice? How can evidence of innocence be ever “too late”? Does this mean that we the people are satisfied to execute an innocent man– able to prove his innocence– because some ineffectual lawyer — either through ignorance or other motive– failed to find evidence that exculpates? Or some judge turning sumersaults to keep a conviction? Why is ‘closure’ more important than justice? Why is error always ‘harmless’?
I have known judges who gutted the defense from presenting important evidence (Jeff Dicks, Frank Milano, Amos King), prosecutors who commit malicious lies (Lloyd Miller), prosectors who refused to accept absoliute evidence of innocene (Malcolm Johnson, Jesse Traffero and Sonia Jacobs), and medical examiners who deliberately “lose” evidence (Patrick Swiney, Amos King, Larry Swearingen), or blatantly misinterpret what they find (Johnny Lopez, Cathy Henderson,). I’ve known Fire Marshals who don’t know nuttin’ (Kevin Richey, Whittongham, Amos King), and many convictions based on a false presumption of correctness.
Does anybody care? Are we condemned to the crime and major sin of indifference? After all it ain’t US getting the needle….What has ahppened to our morals? Please someone, answer this.
Glenn M Larkin, MD, Retired, Forensic Medicine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From a leader of human rights and the Abolition (of death penalty) Movement for decades in response to above:
“This is exactly right….these trials are not about justice in any sense of the word, since justice can never be equated to exterminating people. We kill these folks because we can….pure and simple….power, greed,bigotry, and hatred…. if we REALLY looked into the mirror to see who we are, we would be repulsed to see that nationally we are nothing more than judicial Nazis on this issue…..
It is not US being killed, so all things related to reason, compassion,etc. have no place in a system which is devised by people who only lust to kill, and who use lawyers and doctors to assist them in getting jury votes to uphold the liquidations…..pathetic!
Follow more on Troy and Death Pen in general here
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/5/153347/3246
Blogs on Troy here (just scroll down) http://www.deathpenaltyusa.blogspot.com/
http://www.cuadp.org Citizens United Against the Death Penalty http://cuadp.org/exinfo.html
PLEASE SEND APPEALS IMMEDIATELY
It is extremely important that each of us make it clear that this execution is not being carried out in our names. Please take a moment to email or write the George Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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July 14th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Yes Georgia will murder an innocent man. The executioner will be a klukker wearing a button down shirt instead his white sheet, but the message is plain; Keep the nigger in his place. The nauseating displace by the family and friends of the “victim” reeks of vindictivness and hatred. Of course a Black witness can’t be trusted, except if s/he is testifying against a Jew or Ay-rab.
Apparently, people are starting to wake up from an indifferent sleep, and realize that ADEPA should be called Prevention of Successfull Appeals Act. This is no longer a legal issue but a moral one. Evidence of actual innocence should never be barred because of time limits and other “technicalities. But state laws like Virginia’s old 21 day rule (now repealed) or Alabama’s Rule of Appellate procedure 32– present a true catch-22 and literally prevents an appeal, except on “new evidence”– something the Attorney general states in rubber stamp: 1) it is not “new”; or 2) it is frivolous, of course nat stating what or going through legal loops to try to justify the denial that the judge, a former prosecutor, will rubber stamp.They call it stare decisis..
Death and life cases should have extra safeguards for the inmates if there is to be a death penalty, and not be restricted more than not less severe punishments. There is no logic . We have seen mistakes can make juries convict on unsafe evidence, and police coersion is not unkown, nor is deliberate prosecutorial misconduct as seen by the personna of Nifong, or Doug Moulder. Nor are pathologists and other doctors immune; see Erdmann, Joye Carter, and Joan Wood.– no doubt highly imntelligent and well educated people gone North….
What pollutes our justice system is a growing disregard for physical evidence. Thus a Larry Swearingen can be on death row in spite of four pathologogists and two bug doctors proving that he was in jail when a heinous crime was committed. I challenge anyone — police investigators, lawyers, or anyone reading this– to prove otherwize– that Melissa Trotter was truly dead for 25 days before discovery…And this is just the tip of a putrid iceberg. This same mentality convicted Ranel Adams and Clarence Brandley, sent Allen Gell to death row, and convicted Ivan Cantu, to name a few.
While putting the bad guys behind behind bars, and there are many bad guys, we have to distinguish between the bad guys, the worst guys and the good guys; this mission we have failed, even with all that high fallutin’ scientific junk, junk because it it used incorrectly by incompetent and biased junk scientists. I blieve they know who they are.
The complete integrity needed to dispense justice from the first responders to the Supreme Court, is sorely lacking today, and sadly the Troy Davises’of our land will suffer for it. We are all the losers as long as we pretend that we have justice. Thank God, We are waking up. Thank God we are seeing this monster called justice for what it is. Thank God we have the ability to change this system that is not cost effective, destroys life and looks for acts of vindictiveness and sadism to perform on the American People. As Prsidenct Eisenhower stated when holding his infant granddaughter: “It is longtime for a change.”
G M Larkin MD Charlotte NCUSA
July 15th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
With every other option gone DESPITE all the evidence against guilt, etc. etc. ONLY YOU CAN STOP THIS EXECUTION NOW…DO ALL YOU CAN!
http://www.amnestyusa.org/Death_Penalty/Troy_Davis_Finality_Over_Fairness/page.do?id=1011343&n1=3&n2=28&n3=1412