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Does anyone here think that Georgia very well may have executed an innocent person when they executed Troy Davis last week?

There was so much wrong with that case. Seven of the nine "eye witnesses" recanted their testimony. Several witnesses made statements that another man had confessed to them that he was the real killer. And the forensic evidence regarding the bullet was inconclusive, but at the trial it was used as being conclusive evidence.

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Apologies. I didn't see that this topic was being discussed in the Capital Punishment thread until after I posted it. Please merge, if possible. thanks

Governor Rick Scott is so hated in Florida that even people who are normally pro-death penalty are bashing him over his recent signing of a death warrant on Manuel Valle and accusing Scott of playing politics by killing someone in order to try to raise his poll numbers in Florida!! He signed the warrant on June 30th and the execution is set to take place on August 2nd.

Scott is a scumbag who is destroying Florida!! His approval numbers are so low obviously he decided that executing someone might be a good way to up his numbers with the extreme far right-wingers out there.

Previously Scott had indicated he wouldn't be signing any death warrants until the conflict over the drug protocol used to execute these people had been resolved. It has NOT been resolved at this point. The drug makers (in Europe) of drugs previously used in executions have either stopped making the particular drugs or have refused to sell drugs to people in the US for the use of executions. Most European countries stopped executing people long ago and do not have a death penalty. So, the drugs we in the US have used in the past are not available to us now. There is a controversy over the procedure with different drugs being cruel and unusual.

Also, a Federal Court Judge (Martinez) in South Florida ruled that Florida's Death Penalty law is unconstitutional because of the procedure used during the penalty phase of a murder trial. This ruling came down on June 20th. Scott signed the death warrant on June 30th.

When I heard about his signing a death warrant my first thought was, OMG, it's political, he's trying to raise his poll numbers!

Again, Scott is a CROOK and a scumbag whom most Floridians now realize was a HUGE mistake........compliments of the fucking Tea Party!


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