(Updated) Troy Davis Granted Hearing Before 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec. 9

Thanks for the Update.  Good work all around

Thanks for your recommendations, everyone.  Troy and his family have given each other final hugs and said tearful goodbyes three times over the past couple of years.  I hope they never have to do that again.  With each reprieve, Troy was denied a new trial to prove his innocence.  Why?  The US Circuit Court is going to conduct a hearing on Dec. 9 to determine if this reprieve is to be any different.  Will Troy Davis finally get his "fair day in a just court"?

I read that the attorney who represented Troy at his murder trial was only paid $1,000 for defending the African American youth on a capital murder charge.  Compare that to the $24,000 each month that taxpayers are paying to defend former Attorney General Gonzales against a civil suit brought by lawyers who allege he kept them out of the USDOJ because they were not Bush supporters.  I have no idea what taxpayers are paying to defend Gonzales on his prison profiteering indictment.  Justice in America is too skewed to benefit the rich for this country to ever execute anyone.

After Obama won the presidential election, an organization against the death penalty wrote me and shared that the State of Texas had released its lineup for human sacrifice from October until mid-March:  14 people - eight African Americans, five Latinos, and one white man.  That ought to put them in their places.

The only thing accomplished in American justice over the last century is slavery moved from the cotton fields to prisons, and lynching parties moved from the back woods with a firey cross burning to the country's death chambers.  Prisons and death rows across America were designed for black and brown citizens and poor whites only, and that is who inhabits them.

Mary