| # | Name | Tell us why innocence matters to you |
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| 601 | Donna Jo Loeper | I don't believe in the Death Penalty at all, especially in the US where we can keep society safe from someone who murders. But in Troy's case, I really believe that there is a chance that he could be innocent, and so he should not even be in prison. Someone told me that it is not against the constitution to execute an innocent person, but I just don't agree with that. |
| 602 | Anonymous | God. |
| 603 | Natasha | .. |
| 604 | tina brown | it is not right to punish the innocent. |
| 605 | Vivian Jones | Innocence matters when you have overwhelming evidence of reasonable doubt. Every bit of information should be closely examined before you sentence and take a human life without full investigation. It has been proven that court appointed attoneys are limited and do not do a thorough job. I know this from present experience with my own son. The justice system still holds the 2 different systems one for blacks and one for whites. Same scenerio, but if one is white he will be found innocent. One black found guilty. Please set this man free !!! |
| 606 | James A. Yancey Jr. | How can innocence not matter? If innocence does not matter, we do violence to God's direction in Deuteronomy 1:16-17 where Moses declared "And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. 17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s.... |
| 607 | Anonymous | We demean ourselves as a human race when we take it upon ourselves to execute others. The risk of killing an innocent person is too great. |
| 608 | Patricia Buonodono | Because I believe in the Constitution of the United States and why it was enacted. |
| 609 | Terri Been | Please save the life of this man. He is human, and has the right to live! Killing people is wrong...no matter who they are or what they have done! None of us are God, and we should not try to fill his shoes! |
| 610 | Cathy Berset | Let's free Troy Davis. He did'nt kill anyone... also don't kill him ! Anyone can take a life for an another one... |
| 611 | Jennifer Zorland | How much evidence do we need before we understand that eyewitness testimony is not reliable???!!! |
| 612 | Alyx Kendzierski | wrongful execution of an innocent man is murder carried out by the very justice system in place to protect the innocent. make this a just justice system and ban capital punishment. |
| 613 | Christy Armell | This is a classic case that things like this can happen to any of us. Troy does not deserve to be in prison and certainly does not deserve to be executed for a crime he did not commit! When we lose our innocence, we lose everything. Free Troy Davis! |
| 614 | Phil Gasper | Troy Davis's case, like so many others, is a travesty of justice. Troy should be freed immediately. And the problems with his conviction illustrate why the death penalty needs to be abolished. |
| 615 | john wade | God has the last word on life and death |
| 616 | Paula Hodge | Innocence matters because it is right. If we start charging and convicting the police officers and prosecutors who use false evidence in cases like this, they will stop. We all need to know that just because a person is not defined by their professions. LET THIS MAN GO. |
| 617 | Paula Hodge | Innocence matters because it is right. If we start charging and convicting the police officers and prosecutors who use false evidence in cases like this, they will stop. We all need to know that just because a person is not defined by their professions. LET THIS MAN GO. |
| 618 | Marlene Martin | It is a travesty of justice that Troy is still in prison. This criminal justice system is so messed up. We need an overall of the entire system, and we should start by abolishing the death penalty! |
| 619 | Joe Hayes | With so much at stake, doesn't this case warrant the most careful prosecution possible? It's hard to argue that this is it. |
| 620 | David Ball | The thought of executing an innocent man, even a probably innocent man, is horrifying. |
| 621 | Holly Thompson Colburn | Our judicial system is ruthless, racist, and extremely oppressive. Every human being is entitled to human and civil rights that a system involving capital punishment violates. In our society if you are a minority, especially if you are black you are guilty until proven innocent. We all need to stand together to demand our human rights! |
| 622 | Max Le Blond | Innocence matters if we are not to make a travesty of justice. |
| 623 | Ellen Kittredge | hate to see an innocent man put to death |
| 624 | Brian Tierney | Innocence matters to me and all of us because it is what, in principle, should protect us from wrongful punishment. Innocence is particularly and extremely important when the life of an innocent person is at stake. Davis's case shows everything that is wrong and unjust about the death penalty and the criminal justice system at large. |
| 625 | Anonymous | Innocence matters to me because to be involved in any way in an execution when you even suspect that the conviction may be false is (in my mind), cold blooded murder. |
| 626 | Heiko Mankin | In these days, people have learned to look away. >Why should a system that is massively unfair still be running? It must be right as a whole |
| 627 | Dustin Ogdin | Sadly, we cannot trust our current criminal justice system in all too many cases. Too often, it is used as a vehicle to attain power with entirely too few checks and balances (especially with respect to prosecutorial misconduct). The rhetoric is laudable, but the practice is too often disdainful. |
| 628 | Jeffrey Jones | Justice is never served if an innocent person is put to death for a crime he did not commit. We as a nation and as a people must never allow our legal system to mete out a final and irreversible punishment if there is the chance that the defendant is innocent. Let the wheels of justice turn slowly and do not create a second victim out of an innocent defendant. We must honor life and take extraordinary steps if necessary to see that justice is carried out for all parties. A rush to judgment is both unnecessary and against our fundemental principles of justice and fairness. To put an innocent person to death represents the ultimate failure of our judicial system. |
| 629 | Joseph Whiteman | A particularly egregious miscarriage of justice. |
| 630 | Judy Meikle | The death penalty can never be the right thing to do. But when there is clear doubt as to the innocence of a man that is on death row, we must do everything in our power to bring him home. Innocence is the issue that will ultimately make the death penalty history in our lifetime - there is no fool proof system. The death penalty is only for fools. |
| 631 | Judy Meikle | The death penalty can never be the right thing to do. But when there is clear doubt as to the innocence of a man that is on death row, we must do everything in our power to bring him home. Innocence is the issue that will ultimately make the death penalty history in our lifetime - there is no fool proof system. The death penalty is only for fools. |
| 632 | Deborah Belknap | Of course innocence matters. The credibility of our legal system require that justice is done. When the courts put on blinders, seeing only that procedures are followed and ignoring the circumstances of the individuals they are supposed to protect, they do nothing but harm the faith of the citizens in our criminal justice system. DO NOT EXECUTE AN INNOCENT MAN. |
| 633 | Rachel Pringle | If just ONE innocent person is put to death, it is an error so egregious that we cannot claim to be a nation of honor and liberty.
If one person is executed, we are ALL at risk of being murdered by the state. |
| 634 | Luisa Brehm | Kill Death Penalty, it's all !!! |
| 635 | Cynthia Banks | Based on evidence to the contrary concerning wrongful convictions, it is evident that our justice system is not exploring all possibilites for exoneration. Minority defendants are disproportionately given less consideration for circumstantial doubt and it seems that Troy Davis has become a victim of the very thing that our justice system claims to promote, blind justice. We all are aware that witness misidentification, the testimony of snitches and the system variables that are surrounding this case are enough to call for deeper investigation into this case. Let's do what's right and grant a new trial. |
| 636 | Christine Hamel | Executing an innocent man brings us to the level of the criminals we claim to condemn. |
| 637 | Carlos Miranda-García-Tejedor | The death penalty can never be the right thing to do. But when there is clear doubt as to the innocence of a man that is on death row, we must do everything in our power to bring him home. Innocence is the issue that will ultimately make the death penalty history in our lifetime - there is no fool proof system. The death penalty is only for fools. |
| 638 | Elizabeth Wrigley-Field | Troy Davis never should have been in prison. This tragedy should be ended, not compounded by taking his life. |
| 639 | Belisa Choi | What is Justice if a nation does not care about proving innocence? |
| 640 | K. Bandell | ...I am opposed under all circumstances to capital punishment....its vulgarity, however, is uniquely illuminated in cases like the case of Troy Davis in which what may be taken is a life innocent of the crime for which the appellant was convicted....solutions involve a permanent stay and eventual liberation for Mister Davis as well as abolition both national and state....in peace.... |
| 641 | Claire Attwood | Because justice matters to me. While there is never justice in executing anyone,there is even less in killing an innocent man. Evidence,or a lack thereof, point to Troy Davis being innocent. Therefore, he must be released without further ado. |
| 642 | Bob Wakfer | As long as the Death Penalty remains innocence is the only escape. The answer of course is to abolish the Death Penalty and then these kinds of soul wrenching, time consuming and taxpayer expensive processes would never have to exist. |
| 643 | Lawrence Torn | It is immoral to kill an innocent person. |
| 644 | Barb Stephenson | Of course innocence matters! It is tragic enough that society thinks they have any rights in determining who lives and who dies, but to executve an innocent man is an evil that can't be allowed in exist in this country. |
| 645 | Anonymous | 2 remaining witnesses include a man who has subsequently been identified as the actual killer.
and another man who candidly admitted his inability to identify the shooter when questioned by police on the night of the murder. |
| 646 | Anonymous | Justice is Peace, Peace is Justice!!! |
| 647 | Patsy Fields | Troy is innocent and deserves a new trial to prove that innocence. Troy is also an honest and outstanding young man. It is important to Troy, his family and his friends that he receive the justice that has been denied him. For seventeen years, Troy has been on Death Row for a crime he did not commit. Two years awaiting sentence. That's a total of nineteen years. The state of Georgia cannot give those years of his life back to him. Georgia can, however, give Troy his future, which he so rightly deserves. |
| 648 | Anonymous | We must put an end to the racist death penalty. |
| 649 | Rose Armin-Hoiland | Innocence is everything. Why ruin and perhaps end a person's life if they have not done what they have been accused of? |
| 650 | Arvella Johnson | If innocence is not a matter of concern, then we all need to be afraid because this could happen to any one of us. None of us is incapable of being in the wrong place at the wrong time & therefore, being the victim of overzealous prosecution. |