A man has been on ‘death row’ for twenty-two years. He was found guilty of killing a law enforcement official loyal to the state. The weapon used was never found. There is no physical evidence, no DNA evidence, and seven of the nine original witnesses later withdraw their statements after admitting to being coerced by the police. One of the remaining two has remained silent for two decades. The other is suspected by many of committing the crime himself. Despite everything, the black man on death row is executed, murdered, by a cocktail of lethal drugs.
It could be an extract from a fictitious dystopian novel. In fact, this is the United States, in the year 2011. The latest victim of the death penalty is Troy Davis, put to death at 11.08 pm, on 21 September, in Georgia Diagnostic and Statistics prison. There is no point in disguising Davis’ execution as anything other than what it was: a legalized lynching.
Unless, of course, you want to pretend that the colour of Davis’ skin played no part in his death. Or if you want to pretend that the United States, willingly bombing brown people from Libya to Pakistan to Somalia, treats its own brown and black citizens with dignity and respect. Full story...
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