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[dman1991]

Uncle Joe approves of this post.

Lol, love these one line wonders. I try to comment on the whole post usually. I suppose you take from the line that I am a stalinist, when I meant that shitty people ruin it for everyone and its a shame.

[Sean]

I never said I had the answer, lol. The theory is, that after this guy is convicted, and it is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he did it, he should be offed. Alot of those cases that were overturned were shoddy at best. Lots of questions left unanswered, little if any evidence, corruption.

Would you wanna keep brevik or Jared Loughner alive?

A lot were shotty at best?  wtf.  They were put on DEATH ROW dude!!  corruption or not.  There were plenty found innocent after George W fried them by DNA evidence. There are many more because the cases stop at death.   The system doesn't work... its that simple.  So I can't support the system with my vote.   Now you want things "Swiftly" done in which that leaves more room for corruption.  What  about the future 1000's of lives that don't make CNN that were due 'swiftly'??   They can't even get it right slowly.

Now personally....  in this case looks like its a 'slam dunk'.   Myself ....   yea I'd expect to die legally if that was me. In fact I'd sign off on that.  21 years is a joke imho. and I wouldn't mind if he was off'd in a reasonable timeframe if the guy is 'sane'.  but where do you draw the line?  'Death Penalty' has already been abused. If there was a new system in place, I already said I would be open to it to think it through. 

Would you wanna keep brevik or Jared Loughner alive?

In a failed system of course.  1 innocent life I would never want to be on death row.

Do you want to pay for it?   [edit]
 

to back up this up more with todays news:

"In America, policymakers only seem to take action when something terrible has happened.  Well, something terrible happened this week: Troy Davis, whose guilt was never proved, was executed in Georgia. Thankfully, Davis’s execution is renewing calls to overturn the death penalty.

Former Senator Russ Feingold introduced legislation to abolish capital punishment -- but nobody's carried the torch since he left office in January:  No Senator appears to have introduced anti-death penalty legislation this session."

from www.demandprogress.org 


cbsnews

Davis' supporters included former President Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict XVI, a former FBI director, the NAACP, several conservative figures and many celebrities, including hip-hop star Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.

"I'm trying to bring the word to the young people: There is too much doubt," rapper Big Boi, of the Atlanta-based group Outkast, said at a church near the prison.

At a Paris rally, many of the roughly 150 demonstrators carried signs emblazoned with Davis' face. "Everyone who looks a little bit at the case knows that there is too much doubt to execute him," Nicolas Krameyer of Amnesty International said at the protest.

Davis was convicted in 1991 of killing MacPhail, who was working as a security guard at the time. MacPhail rushed to the aid of a homeless man who prosecutors said Davis was bashing with a handgun after asking him for a beer. Prosecutors said Davis had a smirk on his face as he shot the officer to death in a Burger King parking lot in Savannah.

No gun was ever found, but prosecutors say shell casings were linked to an earlier shooting for which Davis was convicted.

Witnesses placed Davis at the crime scene and identified him as the shooter, but several of them have recanted their accounts and some jurors have said they've changed their minds about his guilt. Others have claimed a man who was with Davis that night has told people he actually shot the officer.

"Such incredibly flawed eyewitness testimony should never be the basis for an execution," Marsh said. "To execute someone under these circumstances would be unconscionable."

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which helped lead the charge to stop the execution, said it considered asking Obama to intervene, even though he cannot grant Davis clemency for a state conviction.

Press secretary Jay Carney issued a statement saying that although Obama "has worked to ensure accuracy and fairness in the criminal justice system," it was not appropriate for him "to weigh in on specific cases like this one, which is a state prosecution."

Dozens of protesters outside the White House called on the president to step in, and about 12 were arrested for disobeying police orders.

Davis was not the only U.S. inmate put to death Wednesday evening. In Texas, white supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was put to death for the 1998 dragging death of a black man, James Byrd Jr., one of the most notorious hate crime murders in recent U.S. history.

On Thursday, Alabama is scheduled to execute Derrick Mason, who was convicted in the 1994 shooting death of convenience store clerk Angela Cagle.