Our Great Nation

Tomorrow the state of Georgia is going the execute - murder, really - an innocent man:

A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in 1989, even though the case against him has withered in recent years as most of the key witnesses at his trial have recanted and in some cases said they lied under pressure from police.

Prosecutors discount the significance of the recantations and argue that it is too late to present such evidence. But supporters of Troy Davis, 38, and some legal scholars say the case illustrates the dangers wrought by decades of Supreme Court decisions and new laws that have rendered the courts less likely to overturn a death sentence.

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At the heart of Davis's difficulties is a law passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing -- the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

The legislation was aimed at bomber Timothy J. McVeigh but has had far broader consequences: It limits the reasons for which federal courts can overturn death penalty convictions. In Davis's case, it has helped block the exploration of witnesses' statements that they had lied at trial.

This is what passes for justice today. And, no, it didn't escape my attention that Bill Clinton was an enthusiastic supporter of this murderous law (how anyone can maintain that Bill was a liberal - let alone a socialist - is beyond me).

Anyway, the next step is to simply allow the police to put a bullet in the back of suspects' heads.

We could have our very own NKVD; that would certainly speed "justice" up.

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