Save Troy Davis

A couple of months ago my Mother and I went to a vigil for Troy Davis. Troy has been on death row for something like 17 years, is presumed innocent and was scheduled for execution.
We were there with a couple of hundred others on the State Capital steps in protest of his execution. Troy was accused of killing a policeman in Savannah after 9 witnesses claimed that he did it. Since then 7 of the 9 have taken back their confessions. One said he could not even read but the police were telling him to sign the statement or else. And there is also no physical evidence to prove that Troy did it, not even a murder weapon or DNA.
Why, in the year 2008, is our court system so antiquated that it still feels it has the right to take anothers life, regardless of the circumstances? Should’nt that be the Creator’s job?
I don’t believe in the death penalty.
I think it’s a system that should be abolished all together. Too many times people are executed without enough evidence to rightfully call them guilty or after execution it is discovered that they indeed were innocent. Not to mention the surmounting evidence that indeed the execution drugs used are inhumaine and cause tremendous pain. The drugs used for execution are not even used by the Humaine Society because of their torturous effects.
And here are a few other facts, from the Amnesty International website:

The death penalty is broken!
• 130 people since 1973 have been exonerated from death rows (5 from GA)
• GA has not fully funded legal defense for the poor
• Race, poverty and county often play a stronger role in sentencing than the brutality of crimes
• 80% of Georgia death sentences have been reversed due to serious error

T h e G e o r g i a G e n e r a l A s s e m b l y s h o u l d :
Ta k e a t i m e - o u t o n e x e c u t i o n s , s t u d y a n d a d d r e s s t h e s y s t e m a t i c p r o b l e m s
P r o t e c t t h e s a f e g u a r d o f h a v i n g a l l 1 2 j u r o r s d e c i d e o n d e a t h s e n t e n c e s
En s u r e l a w e n f o r c e m e n t f o l l o w s s t a n d a r d s f o r a c c u r a t e e y e w i t n e s s i d e n t i f i c a t i o n s
Fu l l y f u n d t h e p u b l i c d e f e n d e r’s o f f i c e s o t h e p o o r h a v e e q u a l j u s t i c e

It looks to me more like a broken system where people are do not have the priviledge of their full human rights. Where especially the underpriviledged are treated with distrust and disrespect as though they do not deserve the same treatment as others. It is just another power trip and it is obviously not working to scare people from commiting crimes (seeing as how our prisons are more full than ever in history or even anywhere else in the world).
In the end however, it looks like our efforts and those of many others may pay off. In October Troy's case arrived in the high court of Georgia just two hours before he was to be executed. We are still waiting to see if the judges will rule on whether there is enough evidence to grant Davis a new trial. There has been no date set for when the panel will issue its ruling.