Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story
Sept 22, 2011
Former lawyer, Republican congressman and libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr said the fact that the vast majority of the witnesses had recanted in the Troy Davis case should have implored the Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop the execution.
“There has been very substantial evidence of innocent that has been raised in this case, and I don’t think that it is morally or legally correct for the state of Georgia to execute a man against whom there is very substantial evidence of innocence,” he said Wednesday on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews.
Davis, 42, was convicted of murdering Georgia police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. Since his conviction, seven of the nine people who testified against him have recanted or changed their testimonies.
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Nope.
An innocent man was executed for a crime he did not commit.
Welcome to the United Police State of America.
Yup, if you don’t have bonifide evidence, you can not execute ! I don’t believe 12 jurors have any right to judge either ! Evidence is evidence; it’s not an agreement ! It’s not based on what he says or what she says, it’s fuking evidence or nothing !
I’m glad he found Jeebus while living in his cage.
Now he is with his new friend, forever.
(or waving to him from the lake of fire)
There was plenty of evidence to support his conviction.
Justice finally done.
The [in]justice system wants convictions, not truth.
one notch closer to 500,000,000