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I was reading, "Fight to keep Georgia man from death chamber not over", by Harry R. Weber - Associated Press Writer, on Ledger-Enquier.com (July 22, 2007), which says, "Davis, 38, was convicted of killing Savannah police Officer Mark MacPhail, who was shot twice after he rushed to help a homeless man who had been assaulted. The 1989 shooting happened in a Burger King parking lot next to a bus station where MacPhail, 27, worked off-duty as a security guard. Davis' lawyers say seven witnesses have recanted or contradicted their testimony that they saw Davis shoot the officer, saw him assault the homeless man or heard Davis confess to the slaying.
Three people who did not testify at trial have said in affidavits that another man, Sylvester Coles, confessed to killing the officer after Davis was convicted. After the shooting, Coles identified Davis as the killer."
Did Troy Davis commit the crime? I don't know, but the article goes on to say, "Prosecutors argue that most of the witness affidavits, signed between 1996 and 2003, were included in Davis' previous appeals - which were denied - and should not be considered new evidence." This is where I get concerned. The appeals were denied? What does this mean? Was it like in the Terri Schiavo case where the case itself wasn't even considered because of jurisdiction issues, or because it was felt it wasn't filed in a timely fashion or that it wasn't filed properly, or because it was felt there was no error or some other technicality that hadn't a single thing to do with the evidence that might have proven him actually innocent or shown there was doubt?
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Ah, the pureness and goodness of abortion. On July 18, an abortionist who goes by the name of Beket blogged at Daily Kos that getting one is equivalent to attaining angelic status (bold highlights his): So abortion mill workers, who help women become angels, must be so righteous one should wear sunglasses in their presence or risk being blinded by their radiance. [T]hey are kind of like in that old movie "It's a Wonderful Life," in which every time a bell rang an angel got his or her wings. … [F]or many a woman the experience of having an abortion is … often one way of claiming her wings – her wings of independence. … For many women abortion can be a transformational experience … one in which she is "born again."
Jill Stanek: Shout and Twist (Abortionists)
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