Law is Cool: The death of Troy Davis

On September 21, 2011, at 11:08 pm Eastern Daylight Time, Troy Anthony Davis was declared dead. Cause of death: lethal injection. Administered by: employees of the state of Georgia. Legal justification of homicide: a court order. Grounds for the court order: Troy Anthony Davis’s murder conviction. Societies punish crimes for specific reasons. Section 718 of the Canadian Criminal […]

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LeDaro: Troy Davis

After desperate pleas to halt the execution – including from Jimmy Carter, the Pope, and even from supporters of capital punishment – Troy Davis was executed.It is a sad story. I don’t think Davis committed the murder in question, or at the very least …

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