Troy Davis Dilemma
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has just denied relief to Troy Davis. Troy is accused of killing a police officer. Seven of the witnesses against Troy have changed their stories. One has even said that initially he told the police Troy was not the killer but the police coerced him to say that Troy was the killer. Even with this evidence Georgia is willing to put Troy to death at 7PM on September 20, 2011. Georgia position raises all kinds of questions for me. Some of the questions are as follows:
- · Why would Georgia be so adamant about killing a person that might be innocent?
- · Does the fact that the person killed was white and the person accused of the killing being black
does these facts play into Georgia’s decision to go forward with killing Troy who may be
innocent? Statistics show that if a victim is white and accused is black then the death penalty is
much more apt to be given. Don’t get mad at me. These are the facts. I am just asking the
obvious questions. - · This next question is a question that people are afraid to ask, and don’t want asked but I am
going to ask it anyhow. Will it take the killing of innocent people to stop the killing of possible
innocent people? Several hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions asking Georgia to not
put Troy to death. September 19, 2011 Georgia showed it did not care about public opinion
because Georgia has decided to kill Troy anyway. That sends the message that at least in
Georgia, public opinion will not stop a possible innocent person from being murdered by the
state.
Would Georgia not kill Troy if the cost of taking a possible innocent life was the loss of other innocent lives? Would the loss of innocent lives stop the state murder of possible innocent people? These are questions y’all. I just have the nerve to ask the questions. - · Would this kind of public support for Troy stop Georgia from killing him if he were white and the victim was black? Again, statistics are clear that white people are not likely to get the death penalty when the victim is a black person. Don’t take my word. Do the research. Amnesty International says it is “unconscionable “ for Georgia to kill Troy considering the facts that surround the case.
- · What would make Georgia have a conscious?
I know it is going to come up so let me be the first to raise it. My son was involved in a case where three people were killed. The victims were white, the two people that admitted to doing the killing was one black and the other had a black father and a white mother. My son is the product of two black people. The court found my son killed no one but still treated him as a murderer because he was in essence given the same sentence as the two who admitted to doing the killings. That right, the appellate court found my son to have killed no one but that did not stop the trial court from still wanting to kill my son. Yes my son faced the death penalty. At the last moment the prosecutor decided to make a deal and not go forward with the death penalty phase of the sentencing. My son’s sentence was changed from instant death by electric chair or lethal injection, to slow death because he was given 240 years which is in essence natural life without parole. Because he is still living he has a chance to get out of jail. If Indiana had killed him he would not have had a chance to get out of the grave. I am back to questions:
- · Is it possible that Georgia could learn from Indiana? Georgia and no other beside the almighty God can reverse death.
- · Shouldn’t Georgia learn from Indiana and error on the side of life?
I am just asking the obvious questions. It will be interesting to see how Georgia answers. I actually addressed this issue more in-depth on my internet radio program. Here is the link to the program: https://www.yousendit.com/download/bHlDcXltcWZTSUFLSkE9PQ Judge Joe Brown answers like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogBdP6INHlE&feature=share Thank you for listening to AjabuSpeaks.