Posted on 09/21/2011 4:36:27 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
The execution of Troy Davis was delayed temporarily by the US supreme court on Wednesday night in a dramatic intervention just as he was due to be put to death by lethal injection.
The last-minute decision caused confusion outside the prison in Jackson, Georgia, where family, supporters and civil rights campaigners broke into celebration as they believed the court had granted Davis a stay of execution.
But it quickly emerged that the delay was only temporary, while the justices considered whether to issue a stay.
Until that moment it seemed almost certain that Davis would be executed, as the Georgia supreme court had rejected a last-ditch appeal by Davis's lawyers over the 1989 murder of off-duty policeman Mark MacPhail, for which Davis had been sentenced to death despite overwhelming evidence that the conviction is unreliable.
A Butts County superior court judge had also declined to stop the execution.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
If you want his death, you are saying you’re OK before God with the murder of another man who’s not a danger to society in his current state.
If you leave him in that current state, you will face Jesus Christ without that death on your soul.
He’s no longer coming at anyone with deadly force, nor will he be in the future.
So what if he is born again (not my religion) - that just means one less soul snatched by satan, one more lost sheep back into Christ’s fold.
He will die and meet his maker - what’s the hurry, other than blood lust. The victim is likely in the arms of Christ - he don’t care, he’s in bliss. The family needs to come to truly see that too and to want to join him - with no blood on their hands, lest they’ll never see him.
"For he (authority) is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil."
We have laws. The punishment for taking this life was death. He knew that and is guilty. I feel no guilt for my support of capital punishment nor sympathy for his life when he took another.
If you knew the Bible at all you would know Jesus didn’t spare the lives of the men who died beside him on the cross. He saved a soul but the punishment on this earth was accepted and taken.
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His first legal work involved working for the defendants in the Alday family murders. If anyone deserved the death penalty, it was Carl Issacs.
What do you find troubling? The man shot to death an off-duty police officer right in front of numerous witnesses, all of whom testified under oath that Davis was the killer.
“...If anyone deserved the death penalty, it was Carl Issacs...”
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Damn right.
Bravo! I knew a true FReeper can smell a /sarc a mile away!
Winner, Erasmus! Semper Fi, Mac! ;>{)
he’s as innocent as OJ, right Miss Kardashian?
U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the stay, according to Davis’ lawyers.
http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/georgia-supreme-court-rejects-1185593.html
Supremes deny stay!
AnnCoulter Ann Coulter S. Ct denies Troy Davis stay. MacPhail's family gets justice after a 22 year wait. Lovers of Cop Killers Inconsolable. 1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply
Rest in peace, Officer Mark Alan MacPhail
Officer Mark MacPhail was shot and killed while working an off duty security job at a bus station. He was shot while attempting to break up a fight in the parking lot of a nearby fast food restaurant.
The man shot him underneath his vest and then again in the head as he fell.
10:27 “I’d like to have some peace now that it’s over,” Anneliese MacPhail mother of murdered officer Mark Allen MacPhail to CNN.
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So when does he die? Tonight?
Ann Coulter: It’s nearly impossible to receive a death sentence these days — unless you do something completely crazy like shoot a cop in full view of dozens of witnesses in a Burger King parking lot, only a few hours after shooting at a passing car while exiting a party.
That’s what Troy Davis did in August 1989. Davis is the media’s current baby seal of death row.
After a two-week trial with 34 witnesses for the state and six witnesses for the defense, the jury of seven blacks and five whites took less than two hours to convict Davis of Officer Mark MacPhail’s murder, as well as various other crimes. Two days later, the jury sentenced Davis to death.
No no no.
This IS justice.
When a black kills a cop (especially if the cop is white), THAT is the very definition of justice.
I’m surprised that Obammie the Commie hasn’t come out and said the cop acted stupidly or something along those lines.
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