In Georgia Race Matters: White Murderer's Death Sentence Commuted

Kid Rasta · Sep 23, 2011

In Georgia race matters: A white murderer (who confessed) got his death sentence commuted to life without parole. But, Troy Davis was put to death. What the fukk is up with that!!!??? The state of Georgia smells of racial genocide.

This shit's unreal...y'all gotta peep the link:

http://hater site.com/462251/race-m...-georgia-pardons-white-death-row-inmate12006/

http://www.thegrio.com/politics/sho...er-stand-on-death-penalty-post-troy-davis.php

The Kid Rasta

andreboba · Sep 23, 2011

If you had told me this happened without posting a link, I would have thought you made it up.

That's not a double standard. That's racial HATRED.

The Dark King · Sep 23, 2011

It's Georgia. Are you guys really surprised? Black life ain't worth shit in the US.

Bliss · Sep 23, 2011

Its bizarre...only 3 have ever been commuted, so why him?..But then not commute the death of a murderer who was deemed possibly mentally retarded?

What's most bizarre - they gave no reason when they issued the commutation.

In all though, 24 other prisoners asked for clemency like Troy - and they did not get it, either.
This is his back story...apart from showing immense remorse for his crime, I can not fathom why he was spared (and 2 others), while 24 others were not.

http://times-georgian.com/view/full_story/3280863/article-Douglas-County-man-scheduled-to-die

Here is another take on it back then..

Georgia man's death sentence changed to life in prison
LETHAL INJECTION
May 22, 2008

Two hours before his scheduled execution Thursday, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles commuted the death sentence of Samuel David Crowe, his lawyer said.

Crowe was convicted in 1988 of murdering Joseph V. Pala, the retail manager at Wicks Lumber Company in Douglas County. Crowe admitted to the crime.

The board's ruling means Crowe's sentence will be changed to life without the possibility of parole. The board did not give a reason for its decision.

When attorney Ann Fort called Crowe with the news, he was quiet.

"He was really shocked and relieved but very somber about it. He takes very seriously the deep harm that he caused when he committed this crime," she said.

Crowe had a cocaine habit that his attorney says he kicked in prison. He spent his time behind bars counseling other inmates, teaching some of them to read and writing to people outside of prison who had drug habits. "He didn't want them to go down the path he did," Fort said.

As for the Pala family, they are devastated. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Pala's widow, Fran Pala, and his daughter, Lisa Pala-Hansen, were too upset to address the parole board. A representative spoke to the board on their behalf, the newspaper said.

Crowe had been scheduled to be executed by injection at 7 p.m. ET Thursday at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, 45 minutes south of Atlanta.

He would have been the 19th inmate in Georgia executed by injection.

William Earl Lynd was executed by injection the first week in May. He was the first inmate to die in the state since September, when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the three-drug combination represented cruel and unusual punishment.

Lynd was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend in 1988.

The U.S. Supreme Court had effectively halted all executions in the country last September, when it agreed to consider whether the three-drug combination used by most states violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Death penalty opponents have argued that if inmates are not given enough anesthetic, they could be conscious enough to suffer excruciating pain without being able to express it because of the paralyzer.

Their claims are supported by medical studies.

Of the 24 death sentences the Georgia board has considered, Crowe's is the third it has commuted.

Also this week, Mississippi executed murderer Earl Wesley Berry by lethal injection. Berry confessed to abducting Mary Bounds in 1987, beating her to death and then dumping her body in a rural road. The courts rejected Berry's attorneys' arguments that he should be spared because he was mentally retarded.
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velkrum · Sep 23, 2011

I'm having a hard time caring about murderers and bad guys...maybe the rest of you just have a lot more love in your hearts.

Bliss · Sep 23, 2011

velkrum said: ↑

I'm having a hard time caring about murderers and bad guys...maybe the rest of you just have a lot more love in your hearts.
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I'm with you - I don't caring either, lol. I an wondering why this man was SPARED?

goodlove · Sep 23, 2011

andreboba said: ↑

If you had told me this happened without posting a link, I would have thought you made it up.

That's not a double standard. That's racial HATRED.
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yeah no doubt.

TreePixie · Sep 23, 2011

You're actually looking at the wrong end of the equation. According to Amnesty International, it isn't the race of the criminal which is the bigger factor, but the race of the VICTIM. Regardless of the color of the murderer, killers of white people are many times more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of black people.

I'd think the idea here is that black lives are not considered worth as much as white lives, so their killers are punished less. :-(

Bliss · Sep 23, 2011

TreePixie said: ↑

You're actually looking at the wrong end of the equation. According to Amnesty International, it isn't the race of the criminal which is the bigger factor, but the race of the VICTIM. Regardless of the color of the murderer, killers of white people are many times more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of black people.

I'd think the idea here is that black lives are not considered worth as much as white lives, so their killers are punished less. :-(
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Agreed!

Soulthinker · Sep 24, 2011

Kid,the justice system in Georgia is wack to begin with. I will not hold my breath for justice for Black-Americans in that state soon.

botoan · Sep 24, 2011

TreePixie said: ↑

You're actually looking at the wrong end of the equation. According to Amnesty International, it isn't the race of the criminal which is the bigger factor, but the race of the VICTIM. Regardless of the color of the murderer, killers of white people are many times more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of black people.

I'd think the idea here is that black lives are not considered worth as much as white lives, so their killers are punished less. :-(
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Beyond true.

dafty pukk · Sep 24, 2011

Members of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles that dealt with Mr. Davis' case:

I wonder...had he simply admitted to doing the killing regardless of his innocence, and expressed remorse, would he have also had his sentence commuted?

“David (Crowe) takes full responsibility for his crime and experiences profound remorse,” according to Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, an advocacy group, who welcomed the board’s decision.

At Thursday’s hearing, his lawyers presented a dossier of evidence attesting to his remorse and good behavior in jail, according to local media reports."
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If it were me, and the option was offered but I was innocent, I'd choose to be strapped to a gurney.

Either way...it's impossible to deny the racial bias in the judicial system, but then again, we are dealing with a system made of human beings. We tend to come into the court with a lot of baggage.

- Daft

GQ Brotha · Sep 24, 2011

TreePixie said: ↑

You're actually looking at the wrong end of the equation. According to Amnesty International, it isn't the race of the criminal which is the bigger factor, but the race of the VICTIM. Regardless of the color of the murderer, killers of white people are many times more likely to be sentenced to death than killers of black people.

I'd think the idea here is that black lives are not considered worth as much as white lives, so their killers are punished less. :-(
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This right here sums it up of how it often works.

Personally I'm a firm believer in if you do the crime, you suffer the consequences but that doesn't cause me to shield my eyes from obvious discrepancies in the penal system.

There is a mentality behind that in which a thesis could be written.

It simply comes down to the value placed on life based on skin color firmly rooted in American history.

tropolis · Sep 24, 2011

big difference.

davis killed a cop.

the white killed a convenience store clerk.

killing a cop is a big deal.

and for those that say whites who kill black victims get it easy, tell that to lawrence brewer who was just executed the other night.

4north1side2 · Sep 24, 2011

tropolis said: ↑

big difference.

davis killed a cop.

the white killed a convenience store clerk.

killing a cop is a big deal.

and for those that say whites who kill black victims get it easy, tell that to lawrence brewer who was just executed the other night.
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Dumb, dumb, dumb, DUMB!

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