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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
I don't know much about this case, but when he was originally convicted the jury took two hours to find him guilty, seven of the members were black.
If he was innocent, then this is terrible.
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You can find some good articles on this case in all the international media. To say the case against Davis was flawed is extreme understatement. Or, briefly, the case sucked. If there is any bright side to a probably innocent man being murdered by the State of Georgia, it is that Americans are going to be forced to take a good hard look at capital punishment. We have our miscarriages of justice in Canada too.
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I particularly remember this one as I was living in Saskatoon at the time of the murder. Reading the news, and watching it on tv most folks had him guilty. He was a bad kid, into drugs and petty crime; but he was not a murderer.
I can't imagine what someone must go through sitting in the chair, or standing on the gallows, or waiting for the lethal injection knowing that one is innocent. I remember reading a sci-fi story called "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". The author, Harlan Ellison I think, considered this the most horrible of fates. Standing, innocent, with a rope around one's neck, waiting for the big drop, must rank right up there with this.