Hi everyone! I'm going to start an amazing sociological blog that will blow all your minds. Blogging actually looks quite fascinating to me all thanks to the movie, Julie and Julia. Amy Adams is an awesome actress! Anyways, I hope I add more knowledge to your brains and make the minutes your taking to read my blog worthwhile!
This week the topic is (drum roll please)... TROY DAVIS. As most of you all know Troy Davis was a U.S. citizen who was convicted of murder and executed on September 21, 2011. He was said to have shot the off-duty policeman, Mark Macphail. The incident occurred in 1989 in Savannah, Georgia, and has been on trial ever since. Davis has faced execution, a total of, four times since 1989. There have been a total of eight witnesses that have implicated Davis as the real killer. Davis was only 42 years old when he was killed by lethal injection on September 21, 2011. (www.thenation.com)
I believe that the guilty people in this world SHOULD be punished, but that the death penalty is a "little" drastic. Loads of evidence pointed to Davis as the killer, but there was still some doubts. What if he was not guilty? What if we have killed an innocent man? Whether he was guilty or not his sentence should have been much less drastic. He could have been sent to prison for life or stuck with a strict parol.
I shall use some insight from the bible on this subject. So in John chapter eight (NKJV) the Scribes and Pharisees brought Jesus a woman who was caught in the act of adultery. They believed that the woman should be stoned to death for her sin. Jesus then said, " He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first." (verse 7) Then all the Scribes and Pharisees left one by one until only Jesus and the woman were remaining. Thus, I believe that no one on Earth has the right or authority to kill another person unless he or she is without sin himself or herself. Even though Troy Davis may have killed another man, he is no less righteous then you or I who constantly cheat, lie, and steal throughout our lives.
Many also believed this was a racist ordeal. Numerous people believed that Davis was convicted because he was a black man who killed a white man. Georgia Congressman, John Lewis, declared " Race is everything in this case". (www.thenation.com) Another death of Duane Buck, a black man, was scheduled for September 15 in Texas. He actually admitted to killing two people in a drug-fueled rage. The U.S. Supreme Court decided to spare his life, for now.
I truly believe that these are not racial issues, but simply coincidences. I really think that if it was the other way around, white men who killed black men, then the verdicts would still be death. It could have been based on a racial issue, but personally I think that conclusion is highly unlikely.
MY VERDICT: TROY DAVIS SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN KILLED, BUT SENT TO PRISON FOR LIFE.
