"To live a life is lost is revenge, not justice." - DESMOND TUTU Unless something God-like and wonderful happens, Troy Davis, 42, will be performed tomorrow, Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at nineteen, by lethal injection in a state prison in Jackson, Georgia. Let me say at the front I feel great sorrow for the family of Mark MacPhail, the policeman who was shot and killed on August 19, 1989. I can not imagine the deep pain they have to shoulder 22 anxiety-filled years, hoping, waiting and praying for a semblance of justice. Officer MacPhail never return to life, his wife, his two children and his mother never saw him. Under that kind of emotional and spiritual compulsion, I can understand why they are convinced Troy Davis was the murderer of their beloved son, husband and father. But, I feel great sorrow for Troy Davis and his family. I do not know whether Mr. Davis killed Officer MacPhail or not. What I do know is that there is no DNA evidence that he belonged to the crime, that seven of the nine witnesses either revoked or contradicted their original testimony tying him to the act, and that a gentleman named Sylvester "Redd" Coles is generally assumed that the actual triggerman. But no real case against Mr. Cole has ever made. Why are we killing Troy Davis? |
