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U.S. Supreme Court Allows Troy Davis Execution

By Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing

Today the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal from Georgia death row inmate, Troy Davis, refusing to consider the case. The court refused to hear the appeal without comment.Without comment...seven out of nine prosecution witnesses have recanted their testimony since Davis' conviction in 1991, and the highest court in the land has no comment.I must say that I find this move by the U.S. Supreme Court to demonstrate not only the lack of real justice in the "justice" system but an act of Supreme Cowardice by a court which is a supposed to be more concerned with truth than with ideology and protecting the system.This ducking of responsibility by the court should be disturbing to every citizen of this country who believes that our court system should be first and foremost concerned with discerning the truth and not maintaining a conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by tcask:: on the road (to abolition) on October 14, 2008 (boomark / email).