elerinwen:

thedailywhat:

Another Follow Up of the Day: Despite a slew of last-ditch efforts, including an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, death row inmate Troy Davis was executed by lethal injection at Georgia Diagnostic Prison near Jackson, Georgia, at precisely 11:08 PM tonight.

A moment of jubilation for supporters came and went as the Supreme Court temporarily delayed the execution so that it could issue its ruling. At around 10:20 PM it was officially announced: There would be no stay.

Doubts about Davis’s guilt stemming from potentially flawed ballistic evidence and the recantations of several witnesses who blamed police pressure on their initial statement were not enough to persuade neither Georgia’s Supreme Court nor its national counterpart to halt the execution of the man convicted in 1991 of murdering off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail.

An earlier request for an additional pardons board hearing was also denied, as was a request to allow Davis to take a polygraph test. “He has had ample time to prove his innocence,” said MacPhail’s widow Joan MacPhail-Harris, “and he is not innocent.”

The White House declined to comment, saying “it is not appropriate for the President of the United States to weigh in on specific cases.”

According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, Davis is the 29th inmate to be put to death by lethal injection since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1973. There are presently 99 men and one woman on Georgia’s death row.

[ajc / ap / reuters / @jaketapper / gdc / photo: ap via cbsnews.]

This breaks my heart in a thousand pieces…

First of all, unless there is enough evidence to be 100% sure the man commited the crime, there is a very stong chance an innocent man has just been murdered.

Now, even if he was guilty, killing a man because he killed another man is the most barbaric and nonsensical thing EVER. It’s bullshit. You’re solving nothing. How the fuck do you sleep at night knowing that you killed someone? HOW? Knowing that you are no fucking better than the man you just murdered? You’re a killer now, so, can the same principles and laws be applied to you? 

Death is death. I don’t care how “justified” you think it is. You took someone’s life. You stopped their heart. You made them stop breathing. You make me just as sick as the idiots that were celebrating Bin Laden’s death like it was a goddamn party.

It’s unbelievable that a 1st world country still applies such punishments. Unbelievable. But well, after all, it’s also a country that prides in war and incessant killing for the sake of so called freedom and obviously money, so, I bet killing a single man must feel like justice. If you agree with death penalty, I hope there is a hell and I hope you go to it. Also, please press that goddamn unfollow button and get the fuck out of my sight.

Fuck you, murderers. 

NOT IN MY FUCKING NAME.

Very well put, lady!