hahaha that's a good one. At first I couldn't understand what you where saying until I reread what I wrote. That's what I get for not checking my spelling. hahahahahaha

pk

No. I've spend most all of my life in the West. The county I am from claimed to have a total of 150 blacks. I am not sure where they came up with that many. I sure never saw them.

Trust me. Racism is very real in the South.

Unfortunately it's very real here in the west too.

Oh thank goodness. You had me thinking I'd broke my joke bone.

What does the Pope have to do with this case? Where did you hear this?

I was about to say thepopeisadope.com, but it looks like they took that domain out of service. That's evil.

http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=thepopeisadope.com&partnerid=19016

http://www.popedope.com/

And ya race could have something to do with this in Georgia.

Here's an article from yesterday that spells it out pretty well:


"Troy Anthony Davis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday. Two hours before the state of Georgia was to execute him, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay until Monday. It had earlier agreed to hear Davis’ case on Sept. 29, but Georgia set his execution date six days before the hearing.

"Davis was charged with killing Mark MacPhail, an off-duty police officer, in Savannah, Ga., in 1989. Davis had gone to the aid of a homeless man who was being pistol-whipped in a parking lot. Seeing the gun, he said he fled. MacPhail, working security nearby, intervened next, and was killed. Davis, an African-American, claimed his innocence, but was found guilty and sentenced to death. Since his conviction, seven of the nine non-police witnesses have recanted their testimony, alleging police coercion and intimidation in obtaining their testimony. By coming forward and recanting, they face serious repercussions, possibly jail time. Some have identified a different man as the shooter. This man is one of Davis’ remaining accusers.

"In July 2007, Davis faced his first execution date. Just a day before he was to be executed, the Georgia Pardons Board granted a stay of execution for up to 90 days. Then, Davis’ attorneys argued before the Georgia Supreme Court for a retrial or for a hearing to present new evidence. The requests were denied, by a 4-to-3 vote. In the same period, the U.S. Supreme Court was weighing whether death by lethal injection constituted cruel and unusual punishment (the court ultimately allowed its use).

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Monday whether it will take on Davis’ case. If it decides not to, he very likely will be executed.

Among Davis’ defenders is former President Jimmy Carter. He said: “This case illustrates the deep flaws in the application of the death penalty in this country. Executing Troy Davis without a real examination of potentially exonerating evidence risks taking the life of an innocent man and would be a grave miscarriage of justice.” Georgia Congressman John Lewis also supports Davis."

[rant on the death penalty and racism omitted to save space - here's the link if you want to read the entire thing http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080924_troy_davis_and_the_supreme_decision/]

"According to the Death Penalty Information Center, since 1973 there have been 130 people exonerated—people wrongly sentenced to death—in 26 different states, including five exonerated on death row in Georgia. Evidence even suggests that at least four innocent people have been executed in recent years. There is no physical evidence in the Troy Davis case. After the stay was announced, Davis asked his mother to have people pray for the MacPhail family, and to keep working to dismantle this unjust system. He told her he wouldn’t be fighting this hard for his life if he were guilty. This is a case of reasonable doubt. Troy Davis deserves a new trial."

Amy Goodman is the host of “Democracy Now!” a daily international TV/radio news hour airing on more than 700 stations in North America.

"It had earlier agreed to hear Davis’ case on Sept. 29."

Does anyone have an update?

Troy Davis case decision expected by Oct. 6
By BILL RANKIN

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Monday, September 29, 2008

When the U.S. Supreme Court meets Monday to decide Troy Anthony Davis’ fate, its nine justices face a fairly straightforward question: Is there sufficient doubt about Davis’ guilt to warrant further scrutiny of his case?

Davis needs four justices to vote “yes.” Otherwise, his execution, halted by the high court less than two hours before it was to be carried out Tuesday evening, will be rescheduled. The court is expected to announce its decision by Oct. 6.....

http://www.ajc.com/mero/content/metro/stories/2008/09/29/troy_davis_case.html

I'm going to pray for God's will to be done in this case.

pk