Comments on: Innocent and Facing Execution Again http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/innocent-and-facing-execution-again/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jerry D. Rose http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/innocent-and-facing-execution-again/#comment-28152 Jerry D. Rose Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:41:41 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3056#comment-28152 This Georgia case is SO "deja vu all over again." Again and again, "innocent" people have been put to death even when---maybe especially when---their cases became causes celebre---with high profile protests against impending convictions. Think Dreyfuss case, think Sacco/Vanzetti, Scottsboro boys, the Rosenbergs, etc. Time after time "new evidence" has turned up that should have exonerated the "innocent," In the Scottsboro case, the two white women who originally claimed they were raped by 9 black boys on a train had recanted their testimony, as did most of the Troy Davis witnesses. The state of Alabama knew by the late 1930s, just as the French government knew in Dreyfuss times, the state of Massachusetts for S/C, of New York for the Rosenbergs, that they were exiling, imprisoning or executioning innocent people. But at a certain point "raison d'etre" (reasons of state) came to prevail. An Alabama Governor, for example, could not pardon the Scottsboro boys lest the admitted mistake reflect badly on the integrity of that state's judicial system. Likewise in Massachusetts; and likewise I fear will be the case in Georgia: never mind that Troy Davis is innocent; he must be executed to upheld the glorious majesty of the state of Georgia. This Georgia case is SO “deja vu all over again.” Again and again, “innocent” people have been put to death even when—maybe especially when—their cases became causes celebre—with high profile protests against impending convictions. Think Dreyfuss case, think Sacco/Vanzetti, Scottsboro boys, the Rosenbergs, etc. Time after time “new evidence” has turned up that should have exonerated the “innocent,” In the Scottsboro case, the two white women who originally claimed they were raped by 9 black boys on a train had recanted their testimony, as did most of the Troy Davis witnesses. The state of Alabama knew by the late 1930s, just as the French government knew in Dreyfuss times, the state of Massachusetts for S/C, of New York for the Rosenbergs, that they were exiling, imprisoning or executioning innocent people. But at a certain point “raison d’etre” (reasons of state) came to prevail. An Alabama Governor, for example, could not pardon the Scottsboro boys lest the admitted mistake reflect badly on the integrity of that state’s judicial system. Likewise in Massachusetts; and likewise I fear will be the case in Georgia: never mind that Troy Davis is innocent; he must be executed to upheld the glorious majesty of the state of Georgia.

]]> By: Gliscameria http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/innocent-and-facing-execution-again/#comment-28123 Gliscameria Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:02:09 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3056#comment-28123 You can't let him out now, because if he didn't kill a cop before, he certianly is now. Everyone on that jury needs to stripped and beaten half to death in public. Even if they were pressured to vote a certian way, not a one of them stood up to prevent a man from being murdered? This is not the world I want to live in. You can’t let him out now, because if he didn’t kill a cop before, he certianly is now.

Everyone on that jury needs to stripped and beaten half to death in public. Even if they were pressured to vote a certian way, not a one of them stood up to prevent a man from being murdered? This is not the world I want to live in.

]]> By: knowdoubt http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/innocent-and-facing-execution-again/#comment-28119 knowdoubt Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:05:56 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3056#comment-28119 Just to reinforce how corrupt the legal system is in Georgia let me relate my experience. I took a case to the Georgia Supreme Court and won. When the case3 went back to the overruled Superior Court judge he announced that the Supreme (GA) Court had not overruled him. When I petitioned again The Georgia Supreme Court declared they didn't have Jurisdiction over THEIR OWN RULING. During the course of this litigation I discovered the defendants attorney was a judge practicing law in his own court in violation of Georgia law the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Committee said that was OK that the relevant statute said, "that a judge could practice law." They just left off the second sentence of the statute that said, "but not in his own court." Our republican Governor and legislators just were not interested in the concept of NO MAN ABOVE THE LAW! These guy are so corrupt that they have no business with something as lethal and irreversible as the death penalty. Just to reinforce how corrupt the legal system is in Georgia let me relate my experience. I took a case to the Georgia Supreme Court and won. When the case3 went back to the overruled Superior Court judge he announced that the Supreme (GA) Court had not overruled him. When I petitioned again The Georgia Supreme Court declared they didn’t have Jurisdiction over THEIR OWN RULING. During the course of this litigation I discovered the defendants attorney was a judge practicing law in his own court in violation of Georgia law the Georgia Judicial Qualifications Committee said that was OK that the relevant statute said, “that a judge could practice law.” They just left off the second sentence of the statute that said, “but not in his own court.” Our republican Governor and legislators just were not interested in the concept of NO MAN ABOVE THE LAW! These guy are so corrupt that they have no business with something as lethal and irreversible as the death penalty.

]]> By: HR http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/09/innocent-and-facing-execution-again/#comment-28115 HR Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:33:58 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=3056#comment-28115 Not surprising at all in a country where liberty and justice are, and always have been, reserved for the well-to-do. Not surprising at all in a country where liberty and justice are, and always have been, reserved for the well-to-do.

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