Troy Davis Execution

djchameleon · 09-22-2011, 11:51 PM

I'm a bit exhausted by this topic but the nail in his coffin was that he was branded as a cop killer. Some people try to bring race into it but that's not even the real issue. Once you are branded as a cop killer, you are going to go down pretty hard even if you didn't do it. I'm just surprised that they didn't plant more evidence to bring him down with and sooner.

I agree with most of what he says near the end of the video except for the whole ban on the death penalty part.

The Board of Pardons decided to give this killer clemency though.

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The parole board in the state of Georgia spared a convicted killer from execution hours before he was due to die by lethal injection on Thursday and commuted his sentence to life in prison.

In March 1988, Crowe killed store manager Joseph Pala during a robbery at the lumber company in Douglas County, west of Atlanta. Crowe, who had previously worked at the store, shot Pala three times with a pistol, beat him with a crowbar and a pot of paint.

Crowe pleaded guilty to armed robbery and murder and was sentenced to death the following year.

"David (Crowe) takes full responsibility for his crime and experiences profound remorse," according to Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, an advocacy group, who welcomed the board's decision.

Killer spared from death hours before execution | Reuters