Yesterday, about 01 AM my time (GMT +1), a poor man called Troy Davis was executed by the police of Georgia.

He was an innocent man that was chosen to be the one, that would have to pay for some other person's crimes.

Mark MacPhail, a police officer working as a security guard at McDonalds, went out to stop a fight that was happening outside.
Mark MacPhail was then shot and killed, this was August 19th 1989. The only thing he was doing there, was that he intented to stop some guys that was assaulting one poor man at a parking lot outside McDonalds. Once he was killed, the police was stumbling around in the dark. They had no one to arrest and charge for this crime. This is when they found a bullet at the scene, it was either planted, or just happened to be at the scene, little do I know. But this bullet, turned out to be a match in a robbery a couple years back, and the suspect in this case was Troy Davis. There were 9 witnesses, that said they saw Davis shoot MacPhail. The trials went on for 20 years, before he died by Lethal Injection. But the ballistic evidence did not put Davis at the scene. Nor did they recover the murder gun. The execution was postponed 3 times, and yesterday was the time, for the American system to murder a innocent man.

There was little to no evidence that put him at the scene, and before he died, 7 out of 9 witnessed changed their testimony, saying that they recieved pressure from the police, to lie in this case.

7 OUT OF 9 witnesses said they was forced by the police to lie in this case, just so they would have a man to arrest.

This, imo, is absolutely awful, and they should've been aware of this, and stopped it!

I can't believe it. I only heard about this yesterday, by my mom, but I checked it out today at school. Is this even possible?
Several famous celebrities even told them to not kill this man, including Desmond Tutu,  Pope Benedict XVI and former president Jimmy Carter.

The Georgia justice system refused to listen, and they was decided on this.


Why are some people such cruel? How can they live with this on their heart? This is justicemurder.

America is against Justicemurder (I believe), and yet they allow the state of Georgia to kill an innocent man, whom they had really no proof of being at the scene, for absolutely no reason.

This guy spent 20 years in jail, meaning half of his life was wasted because someone was forced to lie.


This made me sad, and I wish they would just realise this, and make a public apology or something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Davis_case


R.I.P Troy Davis, October 9th 1968 - September 21st 2011)

May God look upon your soul, see what a poor innocent man you was, and bless you.    

I don't really know what to say.

R.I.P.

I heard about this. It is truely shocking news. I am appauled at how people can be manipulated. I just hope he didn't suffer much

I heard about this this morning, terrible story.

Some friends at school are part of an Amnesty International group and they sent countless e-mails to try to campaign against this case, but they obviously didn't take any notice of them, along with the many other thousands of people which must have tried.

R.I.P 

That's actually really sad.. :\

Why didn't the witnesses say something before hand?

Such a terrible thing... They should really change somethings.

RIP

This falls in perfectly with the debate about the death penalty.  It is so obvious, that this case had fllaws and yet he was still executed.

Imagine what his family must be feeling?  My heart goes out to them.

Thanks for bringing this story to the forum Runar.

Food for thought.