Troy Davis Clemency Denied: He Will Be Killed by the State on Wednesday

the state denies clemency to Troy DavisThe clemency petition of Troy Davis has been denied by the Georgia Board of Paroles and Pardons.  The decision came this morning after the board heard pleas from both sides of the case to either condemn Davis to death or let him live.   Davis is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection Wednesday night at 7 pm.

The Your Black World Coalition, the NAACP, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr. Boyce Watkins and even former President Jimmy Carter, along with others throughout the world, have expressed their discontent about the case.  Out of the nine original witnesses to the murder, seven have recanted or changed their stories.  In spite of this evidence, the board still decided that Davis should be killed for his crimes

Davis’ sister, Martina Correia, said that having the execution of her brother scheduled repeatedly has been difficult.  “It’s been like reliving a nightmare over and over. … But we believe in our brother’s innocence.”

The family of the officer who was killed, Mark MacPhail, was anxious to finally see Davis put to death.

“He’s guilty,” said MacPhail’s widow, Joan MacPhail-Harris. “We need to go ahead and execute him.”

She also expressed the anger that her family has about the death of Officer MacPhail:

“What a travesty it would be if they don’t uphold the death sentence. … It’s time for justice today. My family needs justice. He was taken from us too soon, too early.”

Thousands of people from around the world gathered in Atlanta to protest the execution of Troy Davis.  Hundreds of thousands of letters and signatures were sent to the parole board, and people held vigil for Davis around the globe.

The parole board in Georgia has sole authority to deny or grant petitions for clemency.  It has commuted just three death sentences over the past decade.  The board chose to deny clemency to Davis in spite of the fact that numerous witnesses and even one of the original jury members, has expressed more than reasonable doubt about Davis’ conviction.

 

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  • http://www.facebook.com/SweetDWilliams Tae Williams

    sad. very sad

  • Laker999

    Yes very sad..I recalled a penpal of mine who was executed back in 2007. All the pleas, new evidence, etc meant nothing to the powers that be…they still executed him. I think Mr Davis’s case serves as a reminder that innocent people continue to sit in prison and on death row for crimes they didnt do. Also, we must all learn to be pro active in one way or another…continue to pray, and reach out.

  • Berdell

    sORRY mRS.mCPHAIL, YOU ARE LOOKING FOR VENGANCE NOT JUSTICE.

  • blkgalusa

    I do mot know all the facts in this case but suppose this man really did commit this crime.
    Before all of us jump on the justice band wagon we need to know all the facts.  Killing an officer of the law is a serious matter.  They are trying to send a message here.  So, if he is executed and most likely he will be, I hope that he has made his peace with God.

    • WizardG

      @blkgalusa Suppose you found yourself in this position and there was no one to help you or speak out for you. Even when you have read that seven witnesses have recanted and said they lied on the stand because the police threatened them etc. You post your stupid comment. You’re right you don’t know the facts about this case, but what seems obvious is that you don’t know much about anything at all! Your kind of mental retardation is the source of our problematic world. If you were in the same position maybe you would convince yourself that you are guilty and urge everyone to just let you die! Lunacy has overwhelmed mankind!

    • WizardG

      @blkgalusa Suppose you found yourself in this position and there was no one to help you or speak out for you. Even when you have read that seven witnesses have recanted and said they lied on the stand because the police threatened them etc. You post your stupid comment. You’re right you don’t know the facts about this case, but what seems obvious is that you don’t know much about anything at all! Your kind of mental retardation is the source of our problematic world. If you were in the same position maybe you would convince yourself that you are guilty and urge everyone to just let you die! Lunacy has overwhelmed mankind!

  • Omarali81

    these people who lied on him should be the one in the room to see the pain first hand what  their lies has caused both sides of the family now they want to tell the truth I dont know what you (Troy) is going through rite now  ” GOD IS ALL YOU NEED”

    • WizardG

      @Omarli8:disqus ” GOD IS ALL YOU NEED”
      An insane statement indeed. Billions of men women and children believe in and worship “God” and billions of these human beings are suffering the worst deaths imaginable. Deaths from machete chopping to food and water starvation. It is insane to believe or even think that a God exist let alone make a statement that “God is all you need”. What massive insanity has wracked the human race and this belief system doesn’t make human life better it actually contributes immensely to suffering and violent deaths. If only you understood what the true purpose of such beliefs instilled in humans is for. If only you could see the insanity behind such belief systems. It is true that some human beings can use more mental abilities than others.
      People like Einstein could see things many are unable to see, but it was because of brain power not a gift from your superstitious “God”. Many like Einstein suffered because their advanced minds spoke ideas that went against the status quo.

      Some of us can see how you are deceived about religion and God, but most average humans cannot see this. It is why humans murdering humans is still an acceptable occurrence in our existence.Today one type of God believer is murdering another type of God believer even when this “God” is non existent and even though the beliefs are supposed to encourage good will toward men.
      Insanity is the order of the day for humanoids. Naivety and gullibility are strong psychological traits when first condtioned in superstitious antiquated humanly concocted belief systems. There is no waking up for many because of the way these dark age belief system numbs the brain.

  • WizardG

    Suffering the slings and arrows of the super-white race:
    We are truly a torn and tattered community of “blacks”. If you can call what we have a community. We have no powerful organization like the ‘Jewish Defense League’ to focus on keeping the Anglos from murdering our families. We have no country like Israel to hold strong against our foes. We have no language like Yiddish to speak our own tongue, and we have no culture like practically anyone who has a country to create our own solid base in which to give our children direction. I’ve just read that the NAACP has gone rogue. Not that they have been very helpful to the millions of African Americans suffering abuse in this country.
    There should be no wonder that this white-supremacist country with its wannabe “white” African Americans, would murder our people despite all the evidence and all of the protests against it. They have no respect for us because we have no true power or collective wealth. Very few people from other countries respect us. In fact all they have for us is either pity or disgust. And then there are those who have nothing but hatred towards us. Some of us are counted among the haters of ourselves. This is the kind of climate we raise our children in and this is why we will continue to suffer the slings and arrows of the super-white “race”.! We send our children to these white oriented schools and expect them to turn out to be better human beings. We have been conditioned to function amongst a people who show by their very actions a deeply seated disregard for our well being and no love for our kind to speak of. Yet we practice their forms of religious belief and we bathed our beliefs in fantasy as well as science. We have no foundation of our own and we are defenseless against the constant abuses we are subjected to. We suffer the greatest percentages of negative conditions in this country and yet we continue to do exactly what we are conditioned to do and expect for the whites to respect and share their ill gotten gains with us. Humanity is filled with lunatics, and we count among the most insane!

    Even if the evil whites and their cohorts don’t kill this young man they have already murdered many “blacks” in his similar position and they will more than likely murder quite a few more before all is said and done! We have no strong protection against this evil white supremacist regime and justice in this country is relative to what color you are and who has the power.
    If we don’t create a super-powerful “black” organization filled with brilliant capable leaders soon our children will continue to fall prey to this vile social structure.

    • Usman

      Wizard, as always you paint a very salient picture of the reality of black people ion America, and inded the World over. This Troy Davis’s scheduled execution drives home the distress of your narrative. The worse part is that we feel or are totally helpless when situations like this occur. White juries can try, convict, sentence, or execute any black person, and we lack the power to do anything about it. I think this is the most disheartening part. As helpless as we may be against these odds, we must not allow this to be the black man’s eternal destiny on earth.

      The way I see it, since gaining civil liberties, we never prepared ourselves as a people poised to grow in power and influence, and to exert that power and influence once attained. We bought into the idea that we had been accepted by White America, and became thankful for the ‘gains’ we made since slavery. Many of us became comfortable and settled to a routine life in America believing the lie that this system worked for everyone if they worked hard, but justice kept eluding us. But my question to you is what is the way out? What is the way forward? White police officers in New York City or another city will sooner or later gun down another brother, and the review commission will again rule that the shooting did not violate department’s policy, end of case. So it is like a contineous taunt of black people while inflicting pain and sorrow onn  black families.  How can this blatant disregard be reversed? How do you get your oppressors to think twice before abusing you? This is the question that stares black people in the face, and this is our cross roads.

      One thing I believe black people in America must do is reconnect en mass with their African roots and origins. Black people in America must re-discover their African roots. Some have done so, and some have relocated to different countries in Africa and are assimilating into the culture and life there. I am not advocating a mass exodus to Africa, but black people must re-connect and embrace the roots and their ancestry, and the continent will embrace them back despite the lies and divisions the enemy has sown between black folks here in America and their brothers/sisters in Africa. We need each other. Africa has resources in abundance to sustain us all, but rather than our black siblings in America partnering with us in Africa to develop the continent and utilize those natural resources, the enemy has seperated us and positioned himself as the beneficiary of that resource. So you see black folks here in America or in Africa need each other, that’s # 1.
      It will be a task to create this kind of unity and partnership though. For starters, so many of our people here in the U.S reject any links to Africa. They are quick to claim different percentages other races in them, but their African roots. Yet, these same people are in denial of the conditions you’ve so elaborately described above. They are in denial of their roots. They’ll claim to be everything else, 10% Irish, 15% Dutch, 35% Native American, and so on, but to anyone with eyes, they are 100% black people. There are so many of these self deniers who are also victims of the conditions you’ve described. Our task is great, but the truth is we need to reverse everything we do, from education, to religion, to economic system, to defense, to intelligence, to our own legal system, to diet, to health care, to our own banking system, etc,…we need to build and design our own systems for us, and by so doing, we’ll weaken the stranglehold this enemy has on us.  But I would like to hear you your take on the way forward because we can continue this way and survive for long. 

        

      • WizardG

        @152ec4dc8e5e38b40635075038dd3864:disqus   Your mind is much more enlightened than many. We are harnessed with many psychosocial problems to name a few of the negatives. You are right about everything. It’s that many of our ancestors were assimilated past the damages already done by slavery and the psychology of the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. Top it off with the Eurocentric religious “God” belief system and we’ve got a very damaged community of people related and connected by the hue of their skin but very little else.

        Many of our people are too far gone to listen to reason or rationale. This scourge that we are saddled with had been and is still being infused into the whole of the African Diaspora. We have been fooled in so many ways! While many of us were easy prey and already well conditioned into accepting whatever we could get from our captors we quickly forgot just how much they actually hate us and why they hate us. Some of us don’t know why we are so hated and the reasons are not always the normal info parroted day to day. Many “blacks” naively listen to what is said over and over and take it as truth etc.Many of us don’t realize how long our captors have been at their specialized task of war, raping and pillaging, and the many lessons they have learned through time. These “Anglo-Elite” have purposely thwarted any attempts our leaders have made to inform us properly and/or bring us all together. Even today they threaten our most prominent leaders and infiltrate our strongest organizations. They want to make sure that we are unable to defend ourselves if and when they decide to annihilate us here as they are doing abroad. The only way we can ever give ourselves power is to hope that our most brilliant thinkers unite themselves and create think-tanks and secret societies dedicated to unifying our tattered community and boosting our economic unified power.

        They will be met with great resistance from every possible angle for we are the most watched and studied people in the US.  All around the diaspora we see our brothers and sisters attacked by these Anglo-Elite and their cohorts (black, white or other) and we cannot help them because we cannot help ourselves. If we don’t build the same kind of powerful union as the Jewish have we will remain sitting ducks constantly at odds with each other and vulnerable to any attack the Anglos see fit. Our leaders must secretly create think-tanks like the secret societies the Anglos have created, but because the Anglos and their cohorts are already deeply rooted and always watching, our leaders and thinkers must become much more resourceful and more secretive than the numerous secret organizations of our foes. We must remember that our own are members of their organizations and are obliged to do whatever they are told including helping to murder us! We are surrounded on all sides by traitors and ignorance. Finding our strength against foes that have had a jump on us for a millennium is a tall order, but it is the only way we can pave way to a better future for our children. It seems the impossible dream, but nothing is impossible and with a bit of luck we may make it into the far future.We must always remember who and what we are and most of all, where we are and who is at large and in charge! They will not easily allow us to unify and take away any of their power over us!

    • afrilove

      I agree, I understand, we are losing it, we have even taught we people how to be black in the america, we have gave our self identity away to them, they dont even have to go to college to study about African American, all they have to do to Look at tv, the news, the videos, the music, drive through the neighbors, we have no African unity in the country anymore, they have broken us down, we dont even protest harder anymore, we even let them hypenotize our Black women that there’s not hope for them being or loving a Black Man, but lets not forget this is not our Country , this is not our Country…and they will never really accept us, unless you can prove you have a millions dollar in the bank to help them with their cause,  of stealing more from the mother land without giving back nothing in return..

  • Randjickosta

    Mrs. McPhail,
    Despite the fact that 20 years passed, there’s still so much hatred in you it’s UNBELIEVABLE. You may not be spiritual person, but trust me when I say what goes around, comes around…don’t ever do anything you might regret for one day…it’s just sad the way your thoughts and emotions are going. I can’t believe you actually raised your kids with all that hatred you’ve been carrying in you, and probably telling them bad things about this man and many others.
    Think of this: if you sentence someone for life, he will die in prison. If you sentence him to death, he will die in prison. The only difference is that, by having death execution, you get to see that person die…so what we are talking about here is not justice (because no man on the Earth is just) but vengeance. Neither you nor anyone else has right to judge this man…
    I really hope this guy is alive on Sept 22, because if he’s not, I’ll be praying for you mrs. McPhail…and for your family…because you guys will need it.

  • Randjickosta

    Mrs. McPhail,
    Despite the fact that 20 years passed, there’s still so much hatred in you it’s UNBELIEVABLE. You may not be spiritual person, but trust me when I say what goes around, comes around…don’t ever do anything you might regret for one day…it’s just sad the way your thoughts and emotions are going. I can’t believe you actually raised your kids with all that hatred you’ve been carrying in you, and probably telling them bad things about this man and many others.
    Think of this: if you sentence someone for life, he will die in prison. If you sentence him to death, he will die in prison. The only difference is that, by having death execution, you get to see that person die…so what we are talking about here is not justice (because no man on the Earth is just) but vengeance. Neither you nor anyone else has right to judge this man…
    I really hope this guy is alive on Sept 22, because if he’s not, I’ll be praying for you mrs. McPhail…and for your family…because you guys will need it.

    • Anonymous

      As if you know what it is like to walk a mile in the shoes of a mother who has had her son brutally murdered with a shot in the face.  Vengeance is certainly within the realm of her right to her own feelings.  If we so sure he not guilty, why ask only for life in prison?  Why not demand he be freed?  It seems that everyone protesting this is only caught up in they own emotions about seeing another black man executed.  This mother most certainly has a right to judge the demon who took the life of her child.

      • Kokiliti

        Because of the smart asses like you, this world is here where it is now…pushing the philosophy of “eye for an eye”…we are all gonna kill each other because of jealousy and enviousness. So better try to improve yourself as a person instead of preaching justice.

  • Usman

    WizardG, take it easy on our other brothers and sisters on this forum. They are not against Troy Davis or justice for black people, they are simply affirming a belief and faith in God. I fail to see why their religious beliefs offend you so much. They have a right to hold that belief just as you have a right to hold yours. However, your demeaning and insulting tone is uncalled for and should stop. Your comments and arguments are usually of very high quality, and I enjoy reading them for the brilliant and provocative insights you bring, but your unwarranted insults to others contributors needs to stop. The folks here are not the enemy. They are just as saddened and distrought as you and I are regarding this development. I will therefore urge you brother to be mindful of how you react because one of the reasons why we are hardly on the same page has to do with the wisdom of our words and how we communicate with one another.

  • Xve777

    So 7 out of 9 witnesses recant their statements….two are now charged w/crimes….umm maybe it reflects the character of Davis but of his friends too.   No one can remember what they said 20 years ago…. There is a fact that Davis bragged to everyone of murdering the police officer…even to his own preacher…. It is time to put this dog down.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWZIRLYEGWQIDIQKKJSHVNUQLQ Xavier James

     Davis’ execution is just to remind Black folks who’s “runnin’ things round here.” South Carolina executed 14 year old George Stimney years ago knowing full well he hadn’t done a dam thing. for the exact same reason. Since then, DNA has taken quite a few Black men off death row who had for years proclaimed their innocense.But the bottom line; a white man is dead and a Black man has to die for it- plain and simple. Guilty or not if Davis had killed a black cop he’d be at the club tonight.

  • Rev. George Brooks

    Will someone please tell me the names of the black “sellout Samboes” on that Georgia Board that refused to halt the death of Troy Davis by the state of Georgia?  And yes, I am calling them sellout Samboes, and a lot more, in an upcoming newsletter of mine that will be distributed nationwide in October. And I plan to also include some of their family members, who like themselves, I am sure are Christians that follow the teachings of WHITE Christianity, that most likely includes a false WHITE Jesus, which is not the true color of the real Jesus, who was black. — Rev. George Brooks of Murfreesboro, TN. 

  • bwatts

    The new white hood… the computer.  What a bunch of ignorant, hateful people.  And just in case you confuse who that comment is for- it is for you who are writing on this message board, the supporters of a convicted murderer.  The mind boggles at the hypocrites who write about oppression and forge their own chains with lifestyle choices and excuses. 

  • bwatts

    The new white hood… the computer.  What a bunch of ignorant, hateful people.  And just in case you confuse who that comment is for- it is for you who are writing on this message board, the supporters of a convicted murderer.  The mind boggles at the hypocrites who write about oppression and forge their own chains with lifestyle choices and excuses. 

  • afrilove

    The new undercover Lynching Laws are in place ; Jim Crow and Post Segregation is slowly creeping back upon us, War against the Black Man, Black Mans Burden, they are and is trying our their best to separates use from our family and Black woman. Brother we need start making good proper decisions, remember Guilt by assoication means you’re still guilty of the crime…I feel sorry for this Brother and all the rest out there

  • http://www.facebook.com/sharnese30 LaTonya Shar Magee

    This is a sad case,no doubt.I don’t know if Troy was innocent or not.I also have to look at the victim’s family as well.Do I feel Troy was telling the truth,maybe so.Do I feel that Troy had exhausted all his rights to prove his case,no i do not.I have a problem when I read the family saying,”We FEEL he is guilty”,not “We KNOW he is guilty”.This alone tells me that even the family was not 100% sure.The victim’s family wanted someone to die and it did not matter who it was,a death was justified in their eyes.I really hope that these people who decided this case will understand that they have a potential innocent man’s blood on their hands.Now if Troy did commit this crime,he very well deserved it.Am I for the death penalty?I am for a person paying for their actions.I don’t think anyone could sit here and say that if they were in the shoes of this family,they wouldn’t want the worst for the person who ruined their lives.Just tonight one of  James Byrd’s killers was executed for his role in dragging that man for 3 miles until he was headless.Was this justified in my book,hell yes it was!My questions is,who was the homeless man and did he identify troy as his abuser and the one who shot the cop?If there is another person who in fact was the real shooter,are they going to execute him as they have executed Troy tonight too?This system is the reason why so many folk take the law into their own hands to see their own justice.When will this be fixed???