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To Think A Man Should Not Be Executed...

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 21/09/2011 12:10

When there's this much doubt surrounding the case?

(Well, I'm anti-death penalty, regardless... BUT this is ridiculous)

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midlandsmumof4 · 22/09/2011 01:26

I really hope this hasn't happened............

Rhinestone · 22/09/2011 01:30

I am totally, completely against the death penalty and I hope this is commuted, obviously.

BUT...I always wonder in cases like this, why is the campaign so last minute?! He's been on death row for 20 years - seems to have left it all a bit late.

midlandsmumof4 · 22/09/2011 01:36

Agree with Rhinestone..........so just bumping. Anyone?

CheerfulYank · 22/09/2011 03:50

Still delayed as far as I know.

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 22/09/2011 04:10

CheerfulYank, the stay of execution was denied. The execution is beginning around now. :(

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WildEyedAndHairy · 22/09/2011 04:12

Listening to the live streaming on Custy's link. Not good Sad

CheerfulYank · 22/09/2011 04:25

Yes.

He was executed 15 minutes ago.

I don't know what to say at all.

EightToSixer · 22/09/2011 04:28

Devastated that Troy has now been executed. A sad sad day for a 'civilised' society. This is one of the reasons I will never live in the US. Not in my name.

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 22/09/2011 04:44

I don't understand why the court tormented him for so long. He'd been locked up for 20 years. 20 fucking years, knowing he'd die at some point? Then a further 4 hours strapped to that gurney? How the hell is that justice. :( That's inhumane. It's torture. It's pure fucking evil.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 22/09/2011 04:47

I just keep thinking how awful it would be if my daughter was in the 'care of' my government, and they thought about it, deliberated and then killed her. His family must be utterly devastated.

Serenitysutton · 22/09/2011 05:37

How awful

coccyx · 22/09/2011 06:32

sad to hear this

Whatmeworry · 22/09/2011 08:23

The Deep South is there to allow despotic regimes to feel morally superior to the USA....

trixymalixy · 22/09/2011 08:30

I agree with your thread title if you remove the extra full stops.

A man should not be executed.

I'm gutted they went ahead with this, so barbaric.

FreudianSlipper · 22/09/2011 08:48

very very sad and so very wrong

anyone who is in favour of the death penalty watch Fourteen Days In May and i would be shocked if you do not change your mind

i saw the documentary over 20 years ago and it still haunts me the cruelty of the system and the murder of an innocent man, even if someone were guilty this film shows that there is something very wrong with execution and living under the death penalty sentence is inhumane

StopRainingPlease · 22/09/2011 09:09

To those of you saying that the death penalty is OK when you're sure they did it, and not when there's any doubt:

The trouble with having the death penalty when you're sure they did it, and just putting them in jail for life if you're not sure, is that then it's not the severity of the crime that determines the punishment, it's how sure you are. And after all, if you can say, "We're not 100% sure you did it, just 79% sure, so we'll put you in jail for life instead of executing you," then perhaps you're not sure enough to lock them up for life either. And someone caught red-handed for a lesser crime might be executed, while someone prosecuted for a greater crime is locked up.

southeastastra · 22/09/2011 09:11

america is incredibly fucked up when it comes to death row.

there are pages and pages of cases of prisioners on the internet to read, so few of them have had fair trials or fair hearings. it's sick and am not surprised this was the outcome this morning.

doesn't bear thinking about how brutal the whole system is there.

spookshowangellovesit · 22/09/2011 09:11

i am really horrified it happened. still murder, just because a bunch of people in suits decided it before hand doesnt make it not.

lambethlil · 22/09/2011 09:11

Very sad.

Only answer is to have no death penalty.

sausagesandmarmelade · 22/09/2011 09:29

Reminds me of the Edward Earl Johnson case....

itisnearlysummer · 22/09/2011 09:31

Very sad.

Very wrong.

I wonder what the penalty would be for treating someone the way Troy Davis was treated. Especially during his final hours.

HedleyLamarr · 22/09/2011 10:35

Remember Troy Davis the next time you hear Hilary Clinton or Barack O'Bama criticise China, Burma or Syria about their human rights record.
I can't recall who said this first but "A country can be judged by the way it treats it's prisoners" rings true to me.
I am shocked, but not surprised that a man who is likely innocent of a crime has been murdered by the state.

AvaLafff · 22/09/2011 10:57

To Think A Man Should Not Be Executed...

i can think of many men, and women, who should be executed :(

giving three years for torturing a baby to death is obscene!

lambethlil · 22/09/2011 12:27

There's a difference between thinking that someone might deserve to die
(I can imagine wanting retribution and if someone provoked me enough, if they hurt my children I can imagine wreaking it myself) and a state killing its own citizens in cold blood.

And I think that that difference defines a civilized society.

CurrySpice · 22/09/2011 12:55

I am disgusted at this case. Really disgusted and angry.

I think it is a real shame on the USA

And I agree with Hedley - how dare they criticise other country's penal and justice systems when this type of thing goes on