Ann .J Mumbai, India @ 09:46AM PST Jan 04

The judiciary has no right to impose a death penalty..on any human simply because its a basic human rights violation which must be aborred by the constitution itself in the strongest manner possible. A fair trial is the right of all the accused, a reasonable punishment for the same, if proved guilty is acceptable. But the death penalty no longer has any hold in the legal system, its wrong.

Manuela P Rodrigues New Jersey, NJ @ 09:28AM PST Jan 04
Pledge fulfilled Jan 04!

I'm simply totally against death penalty. Who are they to decide for those people lives?

james m nordlund Fargo, ND @ 06:05PM PST Dec 27
Pledge fulfilled Dec 27, 2008!

Ni hao.  I agree.  An injustice to any is an injustice to all, "we, the people...", can't allow it  :)   For e.g., the fundamental thing taught by Jesus was destruction and murder are of no profit or pleasure, something almost all supposed Christians are anti-thetically opposed to, as is your gov't; and a gleaning from Native American teaching, et al, all life are needed threads in the fabric of life.  Put your shadow behind you, give the gift that keeps on giving, a hand to a sister and/or brother. 

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/all_changing_everything   :)

Matutinally Yours, 

james m nordlund   reality (aja) :)

Alicia Norris , @ 06:15PM PST Sep 23

PLEASE READ and TAKE ACTION at www.amnestyusa.org/troydavis if you choose to! There is some good news in this very important case: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a stay of execution for Troy Anthony Davis less than two hours before he was to be put to death by lethal injection. The U.S. Supreme Court’s justices are scheduled to meet Monday to decide whether to hear Davis’ appeal of a ruling issued by the Georgia Supreme Court in March. In that 4-3 decision, the state Supreme Court rejected Davis’ bid for a new trial or a court hearing to present new evidence. In its order, the U.S. Supreme Court said if the justices decline to hear Davis’ case, “this stay shall terminate automatically.” If the court agrees to hear the case, the stay will remain in force until the high court issues its ultimate ruling, the order said. Because the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to announce whether it will hear the appeal in the next week or so, Davis may not be spared for long, Sharpton said. “One week may not seem like a long time, but when you have only two hours to live it’s a lifetime,” he added. Lester Davis, Troy Davis’ brother, said, “I’ve got to stay focused because it’s not over yet. Hopefully, this gives them enough time to understand the injustice of this case.” Since his 1991 trial, seven of nine key prosecution witnesses who testified against Davis have recanted their testimony. In March, a deeply divided state Supreme Court turned down Davis’ appeal, saying the recantations of seven witnesses who testified against him were not enough to win him a new trial or court hearing. “We simply cannot disregard the jury’s verdict,” Justice Harold Melton wrote. The majority, he added, could not ignore the trial testimony, “and, in fact, we favor that original testimony over the new.” Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears issued a strong dissent. “If recantation testimony, either alone or supported by other evidence, shows convincingly that prior trial testimony was false, it simply defies all logic and morality to hold that it must be disregarded categorically,” she wrote. The new testimony, if found credible, could lead a new jury to find reasonable doubt of Davis’ guilt or enough residual doubt to impose a sentence other than death, she wrote. (excerpt from the Atlanta-Journal Constitution newspaper, http://www.ajc.com/gwinnett/content/metro/stories/2008/09/23/davis_stay_execution.html)

Minna Virtanen , @ 04:05AM PST Sep 16

Death penalty is wrong in every case - especially this.

OLUWAFEMI TEMIDAYO ADELUSI LAGOS, Nigeria @ 09:39AM PST Sep 11

I don't thing killing of murderers in the first instance for wrongs done will not undo the wrongs. Not even in a case whereby physical evidences are absent. The law i know recognises more of physical evidences as the case may be before convicted or executed whichever way you put it.

Sean & Brid O Riain , @ 07:09AM PST Sep 10

Clemency and Justice for Troy Davis - there are far too many worrying aspects to his conviction to kill him

Alice Marsh-Elmer South Pasadena, CA @ 10:08PM PST Sep 08

We need to stand up and make people see that injustice in this system will not be tolerated. Its pathetic how many people slip through our justice system unjustly, and the lack of education regarding is even worse.

Bob Watkins Decatur, GA @ 09:40AM PST Sep 07

I would rather have 100 guilty people living behind bars than take the chance that my tax dollars put to death even one innocent human being. If all you have to go on is eyewitness testimony, I personally think the Death Penalty should be ruled out. Too often, no one eyewitness sees the same thing and all too often decisions about guilt or innocence makes the listener way too partial to testimony they want to hear.

Michelle Durkan , @ 01:33PM PST Sep 06

One murder cannot justify another regardless of the reasoning. To kill an innocent man is just unthinkable and is no justice