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Troy Davis Execution Delayed While US Supreme Court Considers Stay
Execution of death row inmate delayed temporarily as US supreme court intervenes to consider whether to issue a stay
The execution of Troy Davis was delayed temporarily by the US supreme court on Wednesday night, in a dramatic intervention just as he was due to be put to death by lethal injection.
As the first news came in at the Jackson prison that houses death row, a huge cheer erupted from a crowd of more than 500 protesters that had amassed on the other side of the road.
Davis's supporters kissed each other and threw placards which read "Not in my name" into the air.
But the jubilation was short-lived. Talk of a reprieve from the US supreme court quickly gave way to rumours of a stay, and finally the realisation that the court had only ordered a temporary delay as it considered the matter. The mood then grew more sombre as the waiting game that has now been going on for years with Davis resumed.
Until the delay was announced it seemed almost certain that Davis would be executed. Earlier on Wednesday, Georgia's supreme court had rejected a last-ditch appeal by Davis's lawyers over the 1989 murder of off-duty policeman Mark MacPhail, for which Davis had been convicted despite overwhelming evidence that the conviction is unreliable.
A Butts County superior court judge had also declined to stop the execution.
Davis's attorneys had filed an appeal challenging ballistics evidence linking Davis to the crime, and eyewitness testimony identifying Davis as the killer.
The White House declined to comment on the case, saying: "It is not appropriate for the president of the United States to weigh in on specific cases."
At the maximum security prison in Jackson where the execution was scheduled to take place, busloads of Troy Davis supporters from his home town of Savannah came in to register their anger and despair at what they all agree is the planned judicial killing of an innocent man.
Edward Dubose, a leader of the Georgia branch of the NAACP, said it was not an execution, but a "murder".
The protest heard from Martina Correia, Davis's eldest sister, who delivered a statement from about 20 family members gathered around her. She was heavily critical of what she described as the defiance of the state of Georgia and its inability to admit that it had made a mistake.
She pointed out that the state's parole board had vowed in 2007 that no execution would take place if there was any doubt. "Every year there is more and more doubt yet still the state pushes for an execution," she said.
Correia, who has cancer, struggled to her feet in honour of her brother, just a few hours from his probable death. But she exhorted people not to give up.
"if you can get millions of people to stand up against this you can end the death penalty. We shouldn't have to live in a state that executes people when there's doubt."
Dubose gave an account of a 30-minute conversation he had with Davis on death row on Tuesday night. "Troy wanted me to let you know – keep the faith. The fight is bigger than him."
Dubose said that whether the execution went ahead or not, the fight would continue. He said Davis wants his case to set an example "that the death penalty in this country needs to end. They call it execution; we call it murder."
Hundreds of people gathered outside the prison, many wearing T-shirts that said: "I am Troy Davis". The activist Al Sharpton said: "What is facing execution tonight is not just the body of Troy Davis, but the spirit of due justice in the state of Georgia."
Larry Coz, the executive director of Amnesty in the US, which has led the international campaign for clemency, said demonstrations were happening outside US embassies in France, Mali, Hong Kong, Peru, Germany and the UK.
"We will not stop fighting until we live in a world where no state thinks it can kill innocent people."
After winning three delays since 2007, Davis lost an appeal for clemency this week when the Georgia pardons board denied his request, despite serious doubts about his guilt.
Some witnesses who testified against Davis at trial later recanted, and others who did not testify came forward to say another man did it. But a federal judge dismissed those accounts as "largely smoke and mirrors" after a hearing Davis was granted last year to argue for a new trial, which he did not win.
Davis refused a last meal. He planned to spend his final hours meeting with friends, family and supporters.
Davis has received support from hundreds of thousands of people, including a former FBI director, former president Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI.
Parliamentarians and government ministers from the Council of Europe, the EU's human rights watchdog, had earlier called for Davis's sentence to be commuted.
Renate Wohlwend of the council's parliamentary assembly said: "To carry out this irrevocable act now would be a terrible mistake, which could lead to a tragic injustice".
The US supreme court gave him an unusual opportunity to prove his innocence last year, but his attorneys failed to convince a judge he did not do it.
State and federal courts have repeatedly upheld his conviction.
Prosecutors have no doubt they charged the right person, and MacPhail's family lobbied the pardons board Monday to reject Davis's clemency appeal. The board refused to stop the execution a day later.
"He has had ample time to prove his innocence," said MacPhail's widow, Joan MacPhail-Harris. "And he is not innocent."
Spencer Lawton, the district attorney who secured Davis's conviction in 1991, said he was embarrassed for the judicial system that the execution has taken so long.
"What we have had is a manufactured appearance of doubt which has taken on the quality of legitimate doubt itself. And all of it is exquisitely unfair," said Lawton, who retired as Chatham County's head prosecutor in 2008.
"The good news is we live in a civilized society where questions like this are decided based on fact in open and transparent courts of law, and not on street corners."
Davis supporters pushed the pardons board to reconsider his case.
They also asked Savannah prosecutors to block the execution, although Chatham County district attorney Larry Chisolm said in a statement he was powerless to withdraw an execution order for Davis issued by a state superior court judge.
"We appreciate the outpouring of interest in this case; however, this matter is beyond our control," Chisolm said.
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Show Allboy, this would be a nice surprise, wouldn't it? if this crappy court did one decent thing.
("The White House declined to comment on the case, saying: "It is not appropriate for the president of the United States to weigh in on specific cases.")
Why not? __ Haven't residents of the White House ever heard of comon sense and decency, or of Abraham Lincoln? __ Yet there is the issue of setting a precident.
Due to all of the controversy and many valid questions,, Troy Davis should be permitted another trial.
Being readied for an execution is perhaps even worse than death itself... If Davis is guilty of murder, perhaps he has already suffered far enough.
GWB has intervened when it was highly inappropriate for him to do so.
If the EU cares enough to weigh in, to keep this psychotic child of theirs(the US) from making a horrible mistake, then so should our President. Oh that we could just follow the example of our ancestors' societies, instead of insisting on making our own mistakes. We might care for our citizens better...
I can't even begin to imaigine the mental anguish this man must be suffering, how does a person cope with this uncertainty. I think I'm right in saying the Prez could order a review of the case and thereby indrectly cause an indfinite stay but he's not a poor man's president, no not by a country mile.
Only in America....
If he is guilty-I say IF-only he and God know it. And if he is, may he face God and receive his true and just sentence when he stands before him someday...The tremendous uncertainty revolving around so much of this case demands that he not be executed until, and only if, a completely new and thorough investigation take place. Let's hope and pray that, somehow, justice can and will be done, if only in this one instance.
How about we, as a nation, grow up and stop executing people?
To Truth_Forward
They need that canine of FEAR 4 the herd to know its limitations.
INNER America (US) is no more no less a reflection of outer America a MIRROR with slightly different DRONES.
this computer is monitored. a slightly different prison.
No terror no torture just truth.
I see things much the same way as this poster. In principle - not ideology - I agree with the death penalty. However, If it can't be done properly, which is to say, in a foolproof fashion with no doubt remaining at the end of a trial, about a person's guilt, then a death sentence for the person on trial ought not to be issued. Period. By all accounts, Georgia state authorities 'pretended' to see things that way, but then demonstrated bad faith when it executed people who didn't meet that criterion - if I got that information correct. I am not familiar with this case at all. But I just watched some of Democracy Now's coverage and I thought that that's what they reported.
You can't 'pretend' to be principled (and truly pro law and order), then be caught out acting in an unprincipled manner and expect rational people to truly believe in you. Unfortunately, In this godless corporatocracy, Nazi Jews (which isn't 'all' Jewry) and the Christian Right notwithstanding, irrational leaders make good leaders. They are as unfree as the targets of rightwing propaganda that tells us we don't want socialism, which is evil, but capitalism and democracy, which means freedom and choice and godliness - as long as we make the right choice, namely the one which powerful exploiters agree with.
Obama is therefore as free as any other glory seeking, soulless president to please his rich, powerful benefactors and allies. He isn't free to listen to the people.
Unfortunately, Too many Americans possess the negative criterion of irrationality (along the lines of foolishness, not insanity, although those qualities are on the same track and fools on it are headed for deeper darkness) and do not believe that they are losers for knowingly and willingly allowing murderers to run the world. The world's paradigm, or organizing principle, is 'riches for the strongest'. Therefore, How you survive - imperialism rather than internationalism and peace for example - is less important than simply surviving, as though you can't have both. Those who choose actual law and order (rather than law and order as a device to gain dominance and control in society), internationalism and peace are 'not' choosing destruction and insecurity.
Obama sickened me from day one. Stephen Harper, my prime minister here in Canada, similarly sickens me as he shows contempt for parliament (an official finding) and disregards his own supreme court in the matter of Omar Khadr who the court said Harper's government should ask the U.S. to allow to be repatriated to Canada, with Harper demonstrating not any impulse to defend and support justice, but only his power. The people have been put on notice by their benefactors in power: "You 'have' democracy. Stop looking for it or else!"
"But he said to them: "The kings of the nations lord it over them and those having authority over them are called Benefactors. You though are not to be that way..."" (Luke 22:25,26 in the Christian Bible)
"Do not be loving either the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, because everything in the world - the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the showy display of one's means of life - does not originate with the Father, but originates with the world." - 1John 2:15,16 in the Christian Bible. You can lose the meaning of this if you look at it selfishly. There's things in the world that aren't worldly. There's things in the world that are worldly, as in wrong, that I like. And I admit it. But I will not argue with God and I understand the clear statement about the showy display of one's means of life, or survival. Those are the glory seekers who have sold their souls for possible temporary survival in this godless, brutal world. What must they give in return for their 'possible' reward of riches and power? They must sin in order to survive. And that means that they must live and promote the Lie, namely the evolution belief and the force (as in Star Wars) belief. That's all. And that's everything.
Are Americans, and others, who put up with godless corporatocracy and the utter hypocrisy of their 'leaders', not irrational? How else do you explain the continued acceptance of a system of socialism for a minority, of a one party/ two-factions state that wants to brow-beat the rest of the world into being democratic, of a 'law and order' state that forces it's citizens to show their devotion to democracy and the true religion of capitalism by continuing to support their elite minority in the rich lifestyle to which it has become accustomed via paying it's taxes (maintaining their country) for it (as it gets to avoid paying taxes that lying politicians, who say deficits are bad while shoveling out deficit-causing tax cuts, then use as an excuse to impose austerity on the majority and while offshore tax havens swell), while it engages in bloody imperialism, which means aggression not in self-defence but for gain that benefits only a minority of capitalists (who are many but who are still a minority on this planet), causing terrorism that it then says it's in a war against?
Can Troy Davis really have a fair trial now? Would not this necessarily involve embarrassment for police who forced testimonials? Are the Georgian courts capable of it?
Notice which news service wrote this article -- not an American one! Breaking news coming from the UK. Glad to know there's a country that does care about Davis's fate.
They don't call it Butts County for no reason.
It galls me for the White House to state that it would be "inappropriate to comment on a specific case" when there was little hesitation by Obama to play judge and jury regarding Bradley Manning, saying "He broke the law" before there had been any verdicts handed down on that "specific case". Obama becomes more politically panderous and pathetic every day. You can be most assured that he is not weighing in on the Troy Davis execution because he is afraid that he will be perceived as "favoring" a Black man's case because he too is (supposedly) Black, giving the hateful Tea Party crowd a juicy piece of racist steak to chew on for a few days. But Obama can only claim Black ethnicity, definitely not Black Soulness, as his soul has been bought and sold by Wall Street and K Street many times over. I hope most Black Americans understand that if you are not wealthy or powerful, this brother does not have your or my back, unless to put another knife in it . . .
Good point on the Bradley Manning PRE-INJUSTICE..Obama made himself look like A real fool on that one and they should have released Manning that very same day for that very reason alone, including many, many more...Manning should not be in Prison to begin with...
Here in Texas, the execution capital of the United States, white supremacist Lawrence Russell Brewer was just executed for the 1998 dragging death in Jasper, Texas of a black man named James Byrd Jr.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court stayed Texas' planned execution of Cleve Foster. Just last week, the Supreme Court also stayed the planned Texas execution of another inmate.
We put to death so many individuals in this state that it is hardly newsworthy.
Texas has also executed men who were likely innocent. In 2004 Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for the arson related fire deaths of his three daughters. A number of esteemed forensic experts have concluded that the Fire Marshal's Office report on the fire that was introduced into evidence at Willingham's trial, which was the main evidence that lead to his conviction for capital murder, was flawed. The fire was likely caused by accident rather than arson.
SCOTUS just denied a stay of execution. NO dissenting opinions.
I guess all the Rick Perry/Ron Paul fans must be dancing in the streets.
This is horrible news for Troy Davis' family. There is really no justice in this country.
Aaaaaand, it's official. Troy Davis is dead.
My heart goes out to his family. Executing him was an absolutely disgusting and inhumane act.
unanimous, eh? so much for that vaunted "but we'll have better court appointments!" argument.
Two people were murdered by the government tonight.
Maybe it's time to pass a capital sentence on this entire rotten empire.
Justice in this country is an "ideal" only. In reality there is no such thing. I fully intend to boycott all products from Georgia as long as I live.
I am so ashamed of this country. Shame, shame, SHAME on the Supreme Court (those whore bums) and the Georgia justice system. Troy Davis was executed (murdered) and pronounced dead at 11:08 eastern time.
My heart goes out to all the family and friends of Troy Davis. Amy Goodman brought dignity and honesty to this story. Thank you Amy Goodman and the entire Democracy Now team.
Thank God Troy Davis is at peace now. We will never be after allowing this unconscionable, egregious travesty to occur.
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Please boycott Coca-Cola and other Georgia products/travel. Money is the ONLY language too many Americans understand. . .
If you can afford to, please consider donating to the ACLU, Amnesty International, or the Human Kindness Foundation in memory of Troy Davis:
http://www.humankindness.org/prisonashramproject.html
"May mercy season justice."
We are ALL Troy Davis.
No peanut butter?
Jimmy Carter opposed the Execution so out of respect, leave the peanuts alone...
""He has had ample time to prove his innocence," said MacPhail's widow, Joan MacPhail-Harris. "And he is not innocent." "
I'm against capital punishment, sure. And for justice. - In the minds of vengeful victim-relatives, that makes me disqualified to have an opinion. - Whereas those who are for "the death penalty" are qualified?? - A little twisted, that logic. But they use it anyway. It's like logic is a second-hand book: can still be used, even if it's a little warped... That's not how logic works, though.
No song this time??... Years ago a possibly innocent man was electrocuted in Georgia... The song written was:
"That's The Night That The Lights Went Out In Georgia." do dah dummm,,, "that's the night that" ....... and so on..... Sad song,,, sad story.
This is another sad story,,, guilty or not... We'll never know.
Strange how the "Rule of Law" is followed so closely to the letter when it comes to Capital punishment of Minorities..
"Beyond A Reasonable Doubt"
When you have 7 out of nine witnesses recanting their testimony and A Juror which would have "Hung" the jury had she known at the time that the "Evidence" was "Tainted"..
How many deaths/murders have the Wall Street hucksters caused when the "Rule of Law" was suspended for them?...How many deaths/murders are the Insurance Company PIGS guilty of?
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"There is no Justice in this country for the common man, there never was and there never will be"- Clarence Darrow
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"What about this matter of crime and punishment, anyhow?
I may know less than the rest, but I have at least tried to find out...The more men study, the more they doubt the effect of severe punishment on crime.
And yet Mr. Savage tells this court that if these boys are hanged, there will be t dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.”
― Clarence Darrow
“...when the public is interested and demands a punishment, no matter what the offense, great or small,it thinks of only one punishment, and that is death.3 people liked it likeno more murder.
Mr. Savage is an optimist. He says that if the defendants are hanged there will be no more boys like these.
I could give him a sketch of punishment. . . . You can trace it all down through the history of man. You can trace the burnings, the boiling, the drawings and quarterings, the hanging of people in England at the crossroads, carving them up and hanging them as examples for all to see.
We can come down to the last century when nearly two hundred crimes were punishable by death, and by death in every form; not only hanging—that was too humane—but burning, boiling, cutting into pieces, torturing in all conceivable forms.
You can read the stories of the hangings on a high hill, and the populace for miles around coming out to the scene, that everybody might be awed into goodness. Hanging for picking pockets—and more pockets were picked in the crowd that went to the hanging than had been known before. Hangings for murder—and men were murdered on the way there and on the way home. Hangings for poaching, hangings for everything and hangings in public, not shut up cruelly and brutally in a jail, out of the light of day, wakened in the night time and led forth and killed, but taken to the shire town on a high hill, in the presence of a multitude, so that all might see that the wages of sin were death. . . .
Gradually the laws have been changed and modified, and men look back with horror at the hangings and the killings of the past. What did they find in England? That as they got rid of these barbarous statutes crimes decreased instead of increased; as the criminal law was modified and humanized, there was less crime instead of more. I will undertake to say, your Honor, that you can scarcely find a single book written by a student—and I will include all the works on criminology of the past—that has not made the statement over and over again that as the penal code was made less terrible crimes grew less frequent. . . .
If these two boys die on the scaffold, which I can never bring myself to imagine—if they do die on the scaffold, the details of this will be spread over the world. Every newspaper in the United States will carry a full account. Every newspaper of Chicago will be filled with the gruesome details. It will enter every home and every family.
Will it make men better or make men worse? I would like to put that to the intelligence of man, at least such intelligence as they have. I would like to appeal to the feelings of human beings so far as they have feelings—would it make the human heart softer or would it make hearts harder? How many men would be colder and crueler for it? How many men would enjoy the details, and you cannot enjoy human suffering without being affected for better or for worse; those who enjoyed it would be affected for the worse.
I am pleading for life, understanding, charity, kindness, and the infinite mercy that considers all. I am pleading that we overcome cruelty with kindness and hatred with love.
I know the future is on my side.
Your Honor stands between the past and the future. You may hang these boys; you may hang them by the neck until they are dead. But in doing it you will turn your face toward the past. . . . I am pleading for the future; I am pleading for a time when hatred and cruelty will not control the hearts of men. When we can learn by reason and judgment and understanding and faith that all life is worth saving, and that mercy is the highest attribute of man.”
― Clarence Darrow, Clarence Darrow on Capital Punishment
Davis has been in prison for more than 20 years.
In most civilized, developed, modern western democracies, twenty years (20) is usually the sentence given in a murder case.
But the United States of America has squeezed the teat of justice well after milk stopped coming out. Instead, blood has started coming out. It is neither civilized nor democratic. An enlightened nation would have already released him on account of having served 20 years behind bars.
Imagine what the state of Texas will do if it turns out Davis is innocent. It won't even apologize for having stolen from this man 20 years of his life. Now imagine if he is executed and it turns out that he is innocent. What will the state do? It can't bring him back to life and I'm pretty sure no one in Texas is going to have the moral courage to compensate the man's family.
the death penalty is a barbaric punishment, that neither deters crime nor adequately emotionally compensates the victims of crime. the US, an immoral country willing to grant the state the most dangerious right, shares the distinction of implementing capital punishment w/ the following countries. a world w/ just courts and international rules would recognize the inherent possibility of innocent people being exicuted. of course, the USA murders people daily at black op sites throughout the world. who's to say some of those murdered by the cia were not people who merely held unconventional political/religious views.
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html
{The Death Penalty Worldwide
According to Amnesty International, 137 countries have abolished the death penalty. Argentina, Chile, and Uzbekistan outlawed the death penalty in 2008. During 2007, 24 countries, 88% in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States alone, executed 1,252 people compared to 1,591 in 2006. Nearly 3,350 people were sentenced to death in 51 countries. More than 20,000 prisoners are on death row across the world. See also U.S. Figures.
Death Penalty Outlawed (year)1
* Albania (2000)
* Andorra (1990)
* Angola (1992)
* Argentina (2008)
* Armenia (2003)
* Australia (1984)
* Austria (1950)
* Azerbaijan (1998)
* Belgium (1996)
* Bhutan (2004)
* Bosnia-Herzegovina (1997)
* Bulgaria (1998)
* Cambodia (1989)
* Canada (1976)
* Cape Verde (1981)
* Chile (2008)
* Colombia (1910)
* Cook Islands (2007)
* Costa Rica (1877)
* Côte d'Ivoire (2000)
* Croatia (1990)
* Cyprus (1983)
* Czech Republic (1990)
* Denmark (1933)
* Djibouti (1995)
* Dominican Republic (1966)
* East Timor (1999)
* Ecuador (1906)
* Estonia (1998)
* Finland (1949)
* France (1981)
* Georgia (1997)
* Germany (1949)
* Greece (1993)
* Guinea-Bissau (1993)
* Haiti (1987)
* Honduras (1956)
* Hungary (1990)
* Iceland (1928)
* Ireland (1990)
* Italy (1947)
* Kiribati (1979)
* Liberia (2005)
* Liechtenstein (1987)
* Lithuania (1998)
* Luxembourg (1979)
* Macedonia (1991)
* Malta (1971)
* Marshall Islands (1986)
* Mauritius (1995)
* Mexico (2005)
* Micronesia (1986)
* Moldova (1995)
* Monaco (1962)
* Montenegro (2002)
* Mozambique (1990)
* Namibia (1990)
* Nepal (1990)
* Netherlands (1870)
* New Zealand (1961)
* Nicaragua (1979)
* Niue (n.a.)
* Norway (1905)
* Palau (n.a.)
* Panama (1903)
* Paraguay (1992)
* Poland (1997)
* Portugal (1867)
* Philippines (2006)
* Romania (1989)
* Rwanda (2007)
* Samoa (2004)
* San Marino (1848)
* São Tomé and Príncipe (1990)
* Senegal (2004)
* Serbia (2002)
* Seychelles (1993)
* Slovak Republic (1990)
* Slovenia (1989)
* Solomon Islands (1966)
* South Africa (1995)
* Spain (1978)
* Sweden (1921)
* Switzerland (1942)
* Turkey (2002)
* Turkmenistan (1999)
* Tuvalu (1978)
* Ukraine (1999)
* United Kingdom (1973)
* Uruguay (1907)
* Uzbekistan (2008)
* Vanuatu (1980)
* Vatican City (1969)
* Venezuela (1863)
Death Penalty Outlawed for Ordinary Crimes 2 (year)
* Bolivia (1997)
* Brazil (1979)
* Cook Islands (n.a.)
* El Salvador (1983)
* Fiji (1979)
* Israel (1954)
* Kazakhstan (2007)
* Kyrgyzstan (2007)
* Latvia (1999)
* Peru (1979)
De Facto Ban on Death Penalty3 (year)4
* Algeria (1993)
* Benin (1987)
* Brunei Darussalam (1957)
* Burkina Faso (1988)
* Central African Republic (1981)
* Congo (Republic) (1982)
* Eritrea (n.a.)
* Gabon (n.a.)
* Gambia (1981)
* Ghana (n.a.)
* Grenada (1978)
* Kenya (n.a.)
* Korea, South (n.a.)
* Laos (n.a.)
* Liberia (n.a.)
* Madagascar (1958)
* Malawi (n.a.)
* Maldives (1952)
* Mali (1980)
* Mauritania (1987)
* Morocco (1993)
* Myanmar (1993)
* Nauru (1968)
* Niger (1976)
* Papua New Guinea (1950)
* Russia (1999)
* Sri Lanka (1976)
* Suriname (1982)
* Swaziland (n.a.)
* Tajikistan (n.a.)
* Tanzania (n.a.)
* Togo (n.a.)
* Tonga (1982)
* Tunisia (1990)
* Zambia (n.a.)
Death Penalty Permitted
* Afghanistan
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Bahamas
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Barbados
* Belarus
* Belize
* Botswana
* Burundi
* Cameroon
* Chad
* China (People's Republic)
* Comoros
* Congo (Democratic Republic)
* Cuba
* Dominica
* Egypt
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* Gabon
* Ghana
* Guatemala
* Guinea
* Guyana
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Jamaica
* Japan
* Jordan
* Korea, North
* Korea, South
* Kuwait
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Lesotho
* Libya
* Malawi
* Malaysia
* Mongolia
* Nigeria
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palestinian Authority
* Qatar
* St. Kitts and Nevis
* St. Lucia
* St. Vincent and the Grenadines
* Saudi Arabia
* Sierra Leone
* Singapore
* Somalia
* Sudan
* Swaziland
* Syria
* Taiwan
* Tajikistan
* Tanzania
* Thailand
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Uganda
* United Arab Emirates
* United States
* Vietnam
* Yemen
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe
NOTE: n.a. = date not available. 1. If death penalty was outlawed for ordinary crimes before it was outlawed in all cases, the earlier date is given.
2. Death penalty is permitted only for exceptional crimes, such as crimes committed under military law or in wartime.
3. Death penalty is sanctioned by law but has not been the practice for ten or more years.
4. Year of last execution. Source: Amnesty International.}
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the death penalty is a barbaric pratice from our past; as a species, we are capable of moving past state sanctioned violence.
...peace...
In Amerika you can have all the justice you can afford. This killing of Troy Davis is just another example why the government must be replaced. The Constitution has become just "a god damned piece of paper" that the ruling elite use as a truncheon against workers and the poverty stricken.