Troy Davis Denied Clemency; To Be Executed Weds

Soulthinker · Sep 22, 2011

I'm for abortion and capitol punishment for people proven to commit the crime. Last night's execution was crimminal because the man did not do it and the person who did is still free. For the family of the deceased if that man is finally caught I hope the executed man's family sues them for everything they got. Oh, I wished that DA got the same punishment like Mike Nifong.

TERRASTAR18 · Sep 23, 2011

Kunoichi said: ↑

Former DA on Troy Davis case says doubts are 'manufactured'

by Mechele R. Dillard on 2011-09-21

Spencer Lawton, the district attorney who prosecuted convicted cop killer Troy Davis 20 years ago spoke with 11 Alive News in Atlanta on Tuesday, and indicated that the doubt being raised in the case is “manufactured.”

Although hundreds of thousands of supporters have tried to persuade the Georgia Pardons and Paroles Board to spare the life of Davis, the board has held fast, refusing Davis clemency. Lawton, who is the former district attorney for Georgia’s Eastern Judicial Circuit, prosecuted the case in 1991, and says that the actual court case was/is solid; it is only in the “realm of public relations” where Davis appears innocent of killing Officer Mark MacPhail.

For example, it has been widely publicized that seven of the nine witnesses against Davis have recanted testimony. According to Lawton, this is untrue. The witnesses themselves have never appeared in a court to recant, Lawton pointed out in his interview with 11 Alive News’ Brenda Wood. Additionally, U.S. District Judge William Moore picked apart almost every affidavit signed by the witnesses, Lawton indicated, saying that some of the witnesses were not under oath, and others did not directly recant their testimony. Lawton took a sharp view of the role of Amnesty International and Davis’s defense team and their roles in the recantations.

"It doesn't strike me as improbable that with the passage of time a witness could be approached by a well versed and articulate person whose job it is to get a recantation from them and talk them into a certain amount of present uncertainty about their prior testimony," Lawton said to Wood. "That gets the camel's nose in the tent."

Additionally, Lawton said that claims that there is little or no evidence against Davis are erroneous. Davis was also convicted of shooting another man on the same day Officer MacPhail was shot—a conviction never disputed by Davis and his defense team—but the gun firing the shots was never recovered. However, there was strong ballistic evidence.

"There is ballistic evidence based upon the cartridges fired from the gun," Lawton said. "The cartridges match."

Also, the argument by some Davis supporters that Sylvester Coles is the real murderer does not fly, Lawton said.

"There is no evidence against Sylvester Coles," he said. “These people who hold themselves out as interested in nothing but fairness are willing to have Sylvester Coles condemned for this murder on far less evidence than has been introduced against Troy Davis," Lawton said.

In fact, Lawton said, the outrage surrounding this case has nothing to do with Davis or the facts of the case, and everything to do with anti-death penalty advocates.

"It has nothing to do with Troy Davis," Lawton told Wood. "It has everything to do with the death penalty."

"I'm not a fan of the death penalty," Lawton said. "It is a component of Georgia's law. I was district attorney. My duty is to uphold the law."

Lawton, now retired, also prosecuted the infamous case of Jim Williams, the subject of the book and subsequent motion picture, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

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like he would admitt he was wrong......you have to use common sense, he was alleged to have committed both murders, neither were proven.

Kid Rasta · Oct 2, 2011

Troy Davis funeral:

http://news.yahoo.com/troy-davis-mourned-martyr-1-000-ga-200346278.html

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