Jackson, Ga. - Troy Davis, who was convicted of gunning down a Savannah police officer 22 years ago, was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday night, his life prolonged by several hours while the Supreme Court reviewed but then declined to act on a petition from his lawyers to stay the execution. Mr. Davis entered the death chamber shortly before 11 p.m., four hours after the scheduled time. He died at 11:08.
Throughout the evening, police officers in riot gear kept what appeared to be about 500 protesters at bay across the state highway from the prison entrance.
A dozen supporters of the death penalty, including people who knew the family of the slain officer, Mark MacPhail, sat quietly, separated from the Davis family and their supporters by a stretch of lawn and rope barriers.
8 comments:
AMAZING THAT THE MSM never mentioned that Texas executed the Whiteman with the negro dragged with the rope around his neck.Should have put both pictures on the news.
Mmmm , I wonder if ole Jackson and Sharpton were there. We certainly wouldn't want to put a black man to death just for killing a police officer.
All these on death row should be executed NOW stop wasting money housing these animals!!!
The thing about this is that he more then likely didn't do this crime. Sad...how many innocent people the government kills every year and how one sided our 'justice' system has become. Let's see how many of the fullerton 6 get the death penalty with have the evidence on video tape and all.
Sad? How many innocent people get killed by criminals? Everyone of them!
8:53 and 9:01 do you even think before you speak? The Davis case wasn't about punishing a man for killing an officer. It was all about whether Davis was properly found guilty in the first place!
The US has executed just over 1200 people since the 70's yet we have over 130 people who we found to be wrongly convicted in the first place! We know the system has wrongfully locked innocent people up often due to prosecutorial and police misconduct. These are direct violations of civil rights that you would think you pocket constitution carrying folks would adamantly come out against.
9:48 Sorry, guilty by association execute them all that's the only way the future murders might think twice about their next killing. You want new jobs lets build new executing chambers and lets remove this trash from this planet.
They executed Troy Davis and they were right to do so. He killed the cop in a Burger King Parking lot and everybody saw him do it. The crap that the main stream media drummed up was misinformation. The whole reason they promoted this case was because Troy Davis is black and this is an election year and it will help Democrats if you ratchet up racial paranoia. Notice they put to death a white man for dragging to death a black man the same day just to raise it even higher. Democrats need racism.
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