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The Troy Davis Stay

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Robbie Brown has this story in the NYT on the Supreme Court's stay of execution for Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. Yours truly is quoted near the end: Kent Scheidegger, a death penalty expert at the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in California, called the Supreme Court?s intervention ?not usual but not too rare either.? ?I?m not terribly surprised,? Mr. Scheidegger said. ?This fellow has enough of a claim of innocence that many people say he?s innocent.? The inherent problem with newspaper quotes is that quotee has absolutely no say on which of his statements on a case makes it into the paper. The reporter works the statement he chooses into the story, and the editor has the final call. In this instance, my criticism of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles for not giving an explanation of its review and conclusions, noted here, didn't make the cut...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).