The State of Georgia will kill Troy Davis

The State of Georgia will kill Troy Davis, even though there is no physical evidence to connect him to the murder he denies committing, and seven out of nine eyewitnesses have recanted their testimony, saying that police coerced them to lie.
What shocks me about this is that so many people are shocked.
Such amorality surprises no one familiar with how the death penalty is administered in the U.S.
In 1998, I witnessed Jose Ceja's execution. At his clemency hearing, the judge who had sentenced him to death, A. Melvin McDonald, testified on his behalf, saying that he had made a mistake in giving Ceja the death sentence, and that it would be cruel and unusual and morally wrong to go ahead with the execution.
The state killed Ceja anyway.
In 1999, I witnessed Michael Poland's execution. His lawyers were claiming that he was mentally incompetent to be executed. The state claimed that he was faking it. The state appointed a psychiatrist, Barry Morenz, to examine him. Morenz testified that Poland was incompetent to be executed, and that, rather than faking insanity, he was trying to fake sanity.
The state killed Poland anyway.
Last year, the Arizona Clemency Board recommended a stay of execution for Jeffrey Landrigan. Cheryl Hendrix, the judge who had sentenced Landrigan to death, had declared that he had not had a fair trial, and that if she had heard evidence about his background and brain damage she would not have sentenced him to death.
The state killed Landrigan anyway.
Troy Davis may be innocent. He certainly did not get a fair trial. But these things do not matter in the U.S., and the state plans to kill him today.

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