It’s been twenty years. Two years after the 1989 murder of a Georgia police officer, Troy Davis was convicted and sentenced to die for the crime.
He has still, eighteen long years later, still not been executed.
Former federal prosecutor and noted softie Bob Barr writes an op-ed piece in the NYT:
There is no abuse of government power more egregious than executing an innocent man.
But that is exactly what may happen if the...
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