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Finality Over Fairness

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That's the title of a post at ACS Blog by the distinguished former jurist and former Director of the FBI, William Sessions.  It his latest thoughts on the Troy Davis case in Georgia.  The U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution in Davis' case last month.  The Court is deciding whether to review Davis' innocence claim, which would revisit a line a cases that started with the 1993 Texas case of Herrera v. Collins.The release of 130 individuals from death row has made clear that the administration of the death penalty is not infallible. When there are important questions about whether someone facing execution is actually guilty, those questions must be examined and resolved before the ultimate punishment is meted out. On Monday, October 6, the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).