"I am an Innocent man"

As many of you know almost twenty-four hours ago Troy Davis was executed by the State of Georgia for murdering a police officer twenty-two years ago in Savannah, Georgia.  His execution was delayed by four hours when he applied to appeal his sentence both to the Georgia Supreme Court and the United State Supreme Court.  However both courts ruled against him.  Davis was declared dead at 11:08 pm est. His case has been considerably controversial and many people think the State killed the wrong man.

                When Davis was convicted of murder in 1991 he had nine witnesses testify against him.  In the twenty years since then seven of the nine witnesses have repealed their statements. The police officer he apparently killed was off duty working as a security guard. Officer MacPhail went to assist a homeless man who was being assaulted when he was shot. Some evidence linked Troy Davis to the shooting. However there was some controversial evidence on both sides of the case.  The prosecutors seemed to reach the point of unreasonable doubt that Davis committed the murder.

                However, on the flip side Troy Davis and his attorneys had twenty years to try and prove his innocence so that means that he was not completely innocent. Either way I personally do not know enough information about the case to personally make a choice or have an opinion on whether or not Davis should have been executed.  In my opinion if he really did do it then yeah he deserved his consequence. But if he was innocent then the state and country really has to do some thinking about their process of processing its “criminals”.

All I do know is that there were some very unhappy people around the world because of this execution. There were many people, celebrities, and activist groups who were against the “killing of an innocent man”. These people protested and even petitioned to try and keep Davis alive to prove his innocence. 

Either way, I think that this case will be looked at heavily studied for the years to come and it will make its way into the history books.