On Sept. Davis was executed for the murder of a police officer, a crime he always maintained he did not commit. In the months before his execution, people around the country urged Georgia to reconsider in light of the serious doubts about his guilt, including the fact that seven out of nine witnesses recanted their testimony against him.
On the morning of his scheduled execution, Davis asked Wende Gozan-Brown of Amnesty International to share a message with the world. Since , dozens of men sentenced to death have been exonerated — most of them Black men wrongfully accused of murder — according to data from the National Registry of Exonerations. In fact, innocent Black people are seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than innocent white people, the National Registry of Exonerations reported.
These wrongful convictions are just the ones that have been discovered. A new report from the Death Penalty Information Center DPIC shows that the states with the highest incidences of lynchings of Black people between and , are largely the same states that have executed the most Black people over the last 50 years. This has little to do with the nature of the crimes Black people are accused of committing, and more to do with the racially biased way that the death penalty is applied.
Troy Anthony Davis enters a courtroom on Jan. Since , when the executions resumed, just 21 white people accused of killing Black people have been executed, while Black people accused of killing white people have been executed, even though white people make up only half of all murder victims, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Whether or not the death penalty is used is also frequently influenced by the race of the victim. If you are poor, disenfranchised, or a person of colour in the U. The USA is believed to be the most corrupt government in the western alliance and maybe the world. Yes, more corrupt than China and Russia combined. The USA also stands for being the most untrustworthy country in the world having successfully overthrown more than 40 countries the majority of which were democracies with legitimate governments and the U.
While the U. One thing I am obligated to give you credit for is you have done an exemplary job of keeping your minions drowning in propaganda and keeping them ignorant of these heinous crimes your government commits daily around the world and at home.
No one can trust the USA — not Americans, not so called allies and especially not Canada but all these countries must walk a delicate line.
Because the USA is the most powerful military country in the world and they have crazy people behind the controls of WMDs. Michael La Riviere. Little evidence pointed to Mr. He did not fit the description provided to the police.
And he Even if you set aside the issue of Davis's innocence or guilt, the manner of his execution tonight is cruel and unnatural. If the execution goes ahead as expected, it would be the fourth scheduled execution date for this prisoner. In he was given a stay just 90 minutes before he was set to die.
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Troy Davis on death row in Georgia, where he faces execution by lethal injection. Nine eyewitnesses to the crime initially identified Davis as the shooter, and Ewart carefully examined the troubling circumstances under which these identifications were gathered. Some witnesses were far from the darkened scene, many were vulnerable to police pressure, and all took part in procedures that violated basic principles of objectivity.
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