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More on the Troy Davis Case

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Let's begin with two OpEd's dealing with Troy Davis.  First, in today's Washington Times, syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff writes, "Where are the Supreme Court liberals in Georgia case." There are occasional campaigns in this country and abroad to protest our Supreme Court's indifference to a death-penalty conviction of a defendant whose actual guilt is demonstrably very questionable. But never have I seen so startling a denial of fundamental fairness by the high court as when it dispatched Troy Anthony Davis on Oct. 14 to be executed. This case, Davis' lawyers told the Supreme Court in July, "allows this court an opportunity to determine what it has only before assumed: that the execution of an innocent man is constitutionally abhorrent...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).