Thursday, September 22, 2011
George State University School Of Law professor is an expert on death penalty cases
It's a case that's captured the attention of the world. As far as Georgia's legal system — or for that matter, the U.S. Supreme Court — is concerned Troy Anthony Davis received due process and is guilty. Of course, there are thousands of people who believe he is not guilty or, at the very least, there are enough doubts about his guilt to warrant commutation of his death sentence. East Atlanta Patch asked Russell Dean Covey what could happen if it turns out someone else is guilty of the 1989 shooting death of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Covey is an associate law professor Georgia State University’s College of Law and expert on the death penalty and police interrogations. Q: If now we come to find out someone else actually …
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Death by lethal injection will proceed
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Heavy police presence now surrounding the prison where Troy Davis is held. This image was posted by HuffingtonPost.com photographer John Rudolf at 8:43 p.m. He is outside the Jackson prison where Troy Davis demonstrators awaited the U.S. Supreme Court's decision. HuffingtonPost.com reporter Mike Sacks is also on the scene. He tweeted this message at 8:52 p.m.: @ MikeSacksHP : Protesters chanting "we are Troy Davis, I am Troy Davis" loudly in the rain in front of the Court. http://t.co/FdUTrGvG Follow the live stream blog about Troy Davis' case on the HuffPost Crime page on www.huffingtonpost.com.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
A global day of solidarity
More than 3,000 people gathered in Woodruff Park Friday evening in a solidarity march for death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis. Davis is scheduled to die by lethal injection Sept. 21 for the 1989 shooting death of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail. Davis has maintained he is innocent. And seven of nine witnesses at his original trial have either recanted or changed their testimony. Since then, a worldwide movement has ensued to get the death sentence overturned. Friday's rally drew protesters from some 300 places around the world, including a delegation from Davis' hometown of Savannah. At 6 p.m. people began chanting “I am Troy Davis, we are Troy Davis” and soon the crowd was off. As they marched to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Old…
Friday, September 16, 2011
Troy Anthony Davis death penalty case puts justice at risk
As a reporter for The Jersey Journal in Jersey City, N.J., I covered this particularly grisly 1994 triple-murder and subsequent court case. William Menter was enraged because his then-girlfriend, Latisha Roberts, ended their relationship. To retaliate, Menter — armed with a boxcutter — went to Roberts' mother's house and slit the throats of her mother, her aunt and two cousins, a12-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl. Only the boy lived. Though Roberts' family wanted the death penalty, and then-prosecutor Carmen Messano initially pursued it, Menter was ultimately sentenced to life in prison in exchange for a guilty plea. At the time, I asked Messano, now a superior court judge in New Jersey, why not pursue the death penalty since all the …
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Mark Tinker
12:33 pm on Thursday, September 22, 2011
7 of 9 witnesses recanted? I would think that fact alone would warrant life in prison. more ›