America in disgrace

[Coney]

.. and not just about their stance on the Palestinians' efforts in the UN....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15013860

Death row inmate Troy Davis has been executed in the US state of Georgia for the fatal shooting of policeman Mark MacPhail in 1989.

Davis' death was delayed for hours while the US Supreme Court considered an eleventh-hour appeal for clemency.

The 42-year-old's case was heavily disputed after most of the witnesses recanted or changed their testimony.

Various quotes from the public at the end of the article - here are a couple..

From what I have read of the evidence or rather lack of it and speaking as a UK police officer you wouldn't have got a conviction for a minor motoring offence with that much doubt in the Uk let alone a murder conviction with the death penalty.

I support the death penaly as a form of punishment, but cases like this show that as a human race we cannot be trusted to use it.

This is murder by the US. There was too much doubt to ever put this man to death, and to tell him he "couldn't prove his innocence" is one of the most dangerous statements ever made by a law maker.

I can understand the family of the policeman wanting vengeance, but I fail to see how that can be satisfied by executing the wrong man.

Still, I suppose if he is black, then they don't feel the need to worry about it as he presumably looked like the guy that did, as do the other millions of blacks in the US.

[Ollie the Optimist]

apparently 7/9 witnesses changed their statements to say he didnt do it and they still excecuted him. what a joke

[Cripps_orig]

SHould have got Clint Eastwood on the case tbh

[LDG]

SHould have got Clint Eastwood on the case tbh

Clint

[Xhaka Can’t]

I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole court's out of order!

[Niall_Quinn]

America is like 50 countries bound together, but each state has a good degree of independence on many key matters. It's just as easy to say Georgia is in disgrace because this would never have happened in New York. At least the yanks go through the whole pretence of the court process, over here if we want someone out of the way we just chase them into the tube station and shoot them in the head ten times. UK in disgrace? Nothing new there.

[Coney]

America is like 50 countries bound together, but each state has a good degree of independence on many key matters. It's just as easy to say Georgia is in disgrace because this would never have happened in New York. At least the yanks go through the whole pretence of the court process, over here if we want someone out of the way we just chase them into the tube station and shoot them in the head ten times. UK in disgrace? Nothing new there.

That's a gross exaggeration. He was only shot in the head 5 times.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's a gross exaggeration. He was only shot in the head 5 times.

It was 10 in the end. The story changed from 5 to 8 to 10 as the facts became know (that is, as the police lies were knocked down). He was also shot after he was restrained, as clear a case of cold-blooded murder as you'll ever hear about, all the coppers walked free. We have nothing with which to beat Americans, we are already so low we could not reach anyway.

[Coney]

It was 10 in the end. The story changed from 5 to 8 to 10 as the facts became know (that is, as the police lies were knocked down). He was also shot after he was restrained, as clear a case of cold-blooded murder as you'll ever hear about, all the coppers walked free. We have nothing with which to beat Americans, we are already so low we could not reach anyway.

I was kidding. However you are right about cover-up.

[Niall_Quinn]

I was kidding. However you are right about cover-up.

I knew you were but one should never let the opportunity to rant about politics and establishment corruption slip past.