tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post225392564657236335..comments2023-08-10T06:32:38.601-04:00Comments on By Their Strange Fruit <a name="top"> </a>: Troy Davis: Georgia's 'Strange Fruit'BTSF:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02553697351488297764noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-86061307207111302652013-11-06T22:24:23.041-05:002013-11-06T22:24:23.041-05:00Absolutely a salient point!
Thanks also for passi...Absolutely a salient point!<br /><br />Thanks also for passing along Avonte Oquendo's information!StrngeFruithttp://bytheirstrangefruit.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-78323244834738453842013-11-06T22:02:12.125-05:002013-11-06T22:02:12.125-05:00On the flip-side, victims who are people of color ...On the flip-side, victims who are people of color are much less likely to get national attention when they go missing.Particularly male minorities. Recently, a young man named Avonte Oquendo has been missing for the last four weeks. He is black, male, and the reward for his safe return is up to $85,000--yet he is still not on the national news or even listed in the missing persons page of his hometown Queens, New York. (My icon has his picture and information.) I find the discriminatory practice in the media in these cases very disturbing. And unacceptable.Our black sons are just as valuable as our white daughters.Tiresiessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-29923119824924349032011-09-29T08:52:33.134-04:002011-09-29T08:52:33.134-04:00Really rood follow up: http://thelastword.msnbc.ms...Really rood follow up: http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/22/7908814-rewriting-the-american-death-penalty?ocid=twitterStrngeFruithttp://bytheirstrangefruit.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-7025734698784336302011-09-27T17:38:39.275-04:002011-09-27T17:38:39.275-04:00With no intention of compiling
a dossier of the ev...With no intention of compiling<br />a dossier of the event, I include the links for more information for my readers (general<br />practice for all my posts). I am glad you availed yourself of those! <br /><br />I too read<br />that page as well as the references it sites. You see here my conclusions based<br />on the information available. StrngeFruithttp://bytheirstrangefruit.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-57702615141724744562011-09-27T14:51:26.817-04:002011-09-27T14:51:26.817-04:00I have no idea of his guilt or innocence but there...I have no idea of his guilt or innocence but there was more evidence than what was presented here. A lack of absolute evidence, in my opinion, should preclude the death penalty. It appears from the information in Wikipedia, that Mr Davis was there at the shooting and the ammunition was his. <br />In 2009, the Supreme Court of the United <br />States ordered the U.S. <br />District Court for the Southern District of Georgia to consider whether new <br />evidence "that could not have been obtained at the time of trial clearly <br />establishes [Davis's] innocence". The evidentiary hearing was held in June 2010. <br />The defense presented affidavits from seven of the nine trial witnesses whose <br />original testimony had identified Davis as the murderer, but who it contended <br />had changed or recanted their previous testimony. Some of these writings <br />disavowed parts of prior testimony, or implicated Sylvester "Redd" Coles, whom <br />Davis contended was the actual triggerman. The state presented witnesses, <br />including the police investigators and original prosecutors, who described a <br />careful investigation of the crime, without any coercion. Davis did not call <br />some of the witnesses who had supposedly recanted, despite their presence in the <br />courthouse; accordingly their affidavits were given little weight by the judge. <br />Evidence that Coles had confessed to the killing was excluded as hearsay because Coles was not subpoenaed <br />by the defense to rebut it. In an August 2010 decision, the conviction was <br />upheld. The court described defense efforts to upset the conviction as "largely <br />smoke and mirrors" and found that several of the proffered affidavits were not <br />recantations at all. Subsequent appeals, including to the Supreme Court, were <br />rejected, and a fourth execution date was set for September 21, 2011. (paragraph from Wikipedia.)<br /><br />I would definitely agree that our justice system is insufficient and biased. However the US media is even worse and persuades people without giving them all the evidence. We do have a problem and I applaud and participate in the effort to correct it. <br /><br />Yet most of the time we hear one side of an argument and jump to that side, especially if it agrees with our previous convictions. In Proverbs 18 it is written v13 He who answers before listening--that is his folly and his shame.v 17 The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him.Bernhenoreply@blogger.com