There Is No Travesty of Justice in Georgia. Execute Troy Davis
Tonight the United States Supreme Court declined to stay Troy
Davis’s execution. He will, by the time many of you are reading
this, be dead. There were no expressions of dissent or objection
from any of the 9 members of the Supreme Court.———————-I like
Guy Benson a lot, but his column on Troy Davis got my blood
pressure up.I’m hearing a lot from people opposed to Troy
Davis’s execution that there is no physical evidence in the case
— and a whole lot of other hoo-haa.First of all, let’s set out
that the case has been going on for twenty years.Second, let’s
point out that two witnesses at Davis’s trial testified under
oath that Troy Davis admitted to the shooting.Yes, those
witnesses have now, twenty years and much badgering by anti-
death penalty advocates later, recanted. A federal judge spent
two days reviewing the evidence and the testimony last year and
issued a 172 page order explaining why the witnesses recanting
was “smoke and mirrors.”In fa