22-09-2011, 08:35 AM
While I agree with you [that the death penalty is immoral and wrong in any case], it is doubly wrong in the clear case of an innocent person. My very low opinion of Justice in America dropped many notches yesterday with the officially-sanctioned murder of Troy Davis. We are all Troy Davis and it could happen to any of us.... The system wanted revenge for the death of a policeman and didn't care if they had the right person convicted. Race probably also played into this case, as with many convictions and death sentences. There is no justice system in the USA - only a growing injustice system. :mexican: That over a million persons had signed petitions to stop the murder - and it was ignored - shows how unresponsive and undemocratic the system is. America is a failed state and sinking lower with every day.......
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass