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Re: Troy Davis ...on the shores of Everdark...there stands a man who bears an evil mark...ask him for it...lol
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Re: Troy Davis Dork! |
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Re: Troy Davis Quote:
This "man"'s name is Angelo Izzo ![]() In 1975, along with two pieces of shit like him, he raped and tortured two women, not just for half an hour, but for one day and one night: when they were done withthe game, they started beating the two victims. One to death, the second one survived just because the fuckers thought she was dead. ![]() In 2004, Izzo was given semi-libertà, litterally semi-freedom, not very different from what you call parole: basically, its purpose is supposed to encourage defendants not to re-offend. SADLY, it encouraged the defendant in question to re-offend, and even in a worse way. Izzo met the wife and the daughter of one of his former inmates with the excuse that "he had to help them with some business" Result: The mom was raped and beaten to death, the daughter was not raped, but beaten to death anyway. Now tell me: is there any hope with people like Angelo Izzo? I don't think so. Not only we have lost two more innocent lives in some horrific way, we keep alive this "man" with taxpayers' money: 250€. per day, for the ordinary inmates, but since he's dangerous, we spend at least the double, the half of what some ordinary worker earns in half-a month. This man, deserves to die: he's a danger , a pain in the ass and he's even expensive to ME: why oh why should we keep him alive? |
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Re: Troy Davis Quote:
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Georgia Proceeds with Troy Davis Execution JACKSON, Ga. – Staff at a prison here executed convicted murderer Troy Davis by lethal injection and pronounced him dead at 11:08 p.m. ET on Wednesday, said Kristen Stancil, a spokeswoman at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison. The execution came less than an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it was denying a request for a stay in the case that had drawn global attention and compelled hundreds of demonstrators - including activist Al Sharpton and rapper Big Boi of OutKast - to gather outside the facility southeast of Atlanta. Davis, 42, was convicted in 1991 for the 1989 shooting death of Savannah, Ga., police officer Mark MacPhail. The NAACP, Amnesty International USA, celebrities, elected officials and people around the world had rallied around Davis, pointing out that several witnesses from the original trial had signed affidavits recanting their testimony implicating Davis. But MacPhail's family has maintained they believe Davis committed the crime and they trust the testimony from the trial. Anneliese MacPhail, the slain officer's mother, said shortly after midnight Thursday that she was still sorting out her feelings about the execution. "I'm still kind of numb," said MacPhail, 77, from her home in Columbus, Ga. "Finally, after all these years, it's over now. I have to kind of digest the whole situation. It's kind of a strange feeling, but I am glad it is over because we have been to hell and back." MacPhail said she now has police protection and that she had been receiving threatening and insulting telephone calls over the last couple of days. NAACP President Benjamin Jealous, who first befriended the Davis family about 15 years ago, and who had been campaigning almost around the clock in recent days to spare Davis' life, could not be reached by telephone late Wednesday or early Thursday, but did send out some updates via Twitter condemning the execution. Quoting Davis, Jealous tweeted: "This movement began before I was born, it must continue and grow stronger … until we abolish the death penalty once and for all." Jealous also said, "In death, Troy Davis will live on as a reminder of a broken justice system that kills an innocent man while a murderer walks free." Kimberly Davis, one of Davis' sisters, could not be reached late Wednesday or early Thursday and the voice mail box of her cell phone was full. After the execution, media witnesses shared what they saw inside the prison. Davis refused his last meal and the sedative Ativan that was offered to him, Rhonda Cook, reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, said late Wednesday. Davis maintained his innocence up until the end said another media witness, Jon Lewis of WSB Radio in Atlanta. Davis told the MacPhail family "he was sorry for their loss but said he was not personally responsible for the death of their son, father and brother," Lewis said. Lewis added that Davis urged the MacPhails to keep digging for what happened. MacPhail's son, Mark MacPhail Jr., and his brother, William, were present at the execution, Lewis said. Davis told the prison staff, "May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls," Lewis said. The prison administered the lethal drugs at about 10:53 p.m. ET, after which Davis fluttered his eyes some and then lay still, Lewis told the media. The Supreme Court's announcement was the last step in a years-long road by Davis supporters to halt an execution, and in a battle that had escalated in recent weeks. "The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice (Clarence) Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied," read the Supreme Court order released to the news media at 10:18 p.m. ET. Earlier, Jay Carney, White House press secretary, issued a statement at about 10 minutes before the scheduled 7 p.m. execution, saying "it is not appropriate for the President of the United States to weigh in on specific cases like this one, which is a state prosecution." Also on Wednesday, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles turned down a request to reconsider its denial of clemency for Davis, and the state Department of Corrections rejected Davis' request to submit to a lie detector test. Kim Kardashian, Joan Baez and Heavy D were among the well-known people condemning the execution, some of them urging their followers on Twitter to contact a judge in Georgia they believed could still grant a stay. Rapper Big Boi joined activist Al Sharpton and more than 200 other protesters outside the prison. Jealous appeared on CNN Wednesday afternoon with a woman who claimed another man told her at a party that he committed the crime for which Davis, 42, was scheduled to die. Howard University students demonstrated at the White House. Mark MacPhail was shot dead while helping a homeless man who was being attacked. "I really will feel some peace once I know it is over with," Anneliese MacPhail said earlier Wednesday. "I have been through all the courts, and that is awful hard because they always talk about what happened to Mark from the day he got shot and you see all the things and the bloody uniform. That just tears my heart up." On Wednesday afternoon, Jealous of the NAACP appeared on CNN with Quiana Glover, 27, who said another man told her at a recent party that he killed MacPhail. She said she gave that information to the pardons board. Sharpton said that no matter what happened, he planned to meet with elected officials in Washington on Friday in hopes of creating legislation barring states from executing anyone in a case that lacks physical evidence. Sharpton said the proposed measure could be called "The Troy Davis Rule." "There is no DNA, no gun, no physical evidence," Sharpton said. "That is unheard-of in a civilized society. This is much bigger than Troy Davis. It's about people having the right to seek redress. We are here because this is an outrage and we want to show it's an outrage." Ernel Dawkins, another Davis supporter, said he felt compelled to come to the prison . "There's always something good that comes out of something bad," said Dawkins, 37, of Decatur, Ga. "His life may save 10 people's lives." |
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Re: Troy Davis Thank you for merging ![]() |
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Re: Troy Davis Quote:
....says the cop or wannabe...no cop's life is worth more than the rest of ours and lots of times cop killers are doing the world a favor....power tripping freaks most of them. |
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Re: Troy Davis Eye-witness accounts of Troy Davis's execution - by reporters who watched him die. Rhonda Cook from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Greg Bluestein of the Associated Press, who have covered more than 20 executions between them, were two of five reporters allowed to watch the controversial death of Troy Davis at Georgia State Prison. Davis, who murdered an off-duty police officer, was executed by lethal injection after a tense four-hour delay. Here is what the reporters witnessed: Quote:
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Re: Troy Davis I am completely against the death penalty. ![]() Not because of religious reasons, I just think don't agree with it. Even if someone tortured and killed one of my kids. I wouldn't 'forgive' them, but I wouldn't want them dead. As I've gotten older my stance has done a complete 180 on the issue. And I'm not completely sure whu, to be honest.
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