| # | Name | Tell us why innocence matters to you |
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| 401 | Anonymous | What happened to "lack of evidence" to prove Troy guilty? He is innocent. Innocence should stand for something - especially when one's life is at stake! |
| 402 | Sister Antoinette Munafo | It is important that our justice system be as fair as is humanly possible, and we must respect all lives. |
| 403 | Lillian Needham | It is a great injustice to convict an innocent person, to disregard the right the individual has for living , for life. DNA evidence is proving over and over again the system is killing, executing, persecuting those who are innocent! |
| 404 | Anonymous | Punishing the innocent seems to be growing in leaps and bounds. Justice demands, as does God's love and mercy and the moral code, that the innocent be spared and helped by those who care. |
| 405 | Rita Woehlcke | It is our human responsibility . Iti s my Christian responsibility. it is the American way. |
| 406 | regina chassar | The innocence of a person is something that we should all work toward. So many have been imprisoned and put to death and were innocent of the crime. All the evidence is important. |
| 407 | Jeanne McGowan,SSJ | All life is valuable..Everyone deserves to be heard. |
| 408 | Ssister Mary Alice Snyder | It is a God-given right, and the privilege of every human being until proven guilty. |
| 409 | Eileen Side | Because I have respect for human life for everyone, most especially for the innocent. |
| 410 | Maria R. patrone, SSJ | Where there is truth, there is innocence! Troy is innocent. |
| 411 | catherine Fitzpatrick | The truth always matters. Alcivilations are based on the truth. If someone is innocent ,let him be declared innocent in truth. |
| 412 | Anonymous | Freedom is a fundamental right which should only be taken away when there is definitive proof of wrongdoing. |
| 413 | Sister Thomas Henry Fletcher | Because when a person is innocence they should not be sent to prison or put to death. |
| 414 | Christine Konopelski | The death penalty is morally and ethically wrong. No one has the right to take the life of another human being. Injustice needs to be corrected in this case. |
| 415 | Pat Madden, SSJ | I feel that justice is not served by death. |
| 416 | Anne Winkelmann | No one is proven Guilty without a proper trial.
this is my opinion that all should be investigated. |
| 417 | Carol A. Kelly | I don't believe in the death penalty. |
| 418 | Mary Beth Hamm | I am opposed to the death penalty under all circumstances but state sanctioned execution of those who are innocent is even more unconscionable. |
| 419 | Barbara Ferraiolo | Innocence means the absence of guilt. I believe the innocent should not be punished for something they clearly did not do! |
| 420 | Sr.Rita Therese Kehoe | It is not only innocence, but life that matters to me. For any of us, inclulding the State, to feel we have the right or authority to dispense with a human life is reprehensible.
It seems to me that innocence and justice are hardly being served when our judiciary system makes it so difficult and almost impossible for an accused individual to have the opportunity to present credable evidentiary proof of innocence that would allow justice to prevail. Such is the case with Troy Davis. The witnesses who have recanted their testimony,admitted to perjury all point to the INNOCENCE of Mr. Davis. This man must not become the next INNOCENT to be executated. |
| 421 | Vera Green | Justice is a key ingredient of all humanity. I treasure this for myself and for all other persons. |
| 422 | clairelesher | So often in our country the innocent are condemmed and the quilty are free. This is not the principles our country was founded on. |
| 423 | Gertrude Helder | I feel all people can be rehabilitated |
| 424 | Joan E. Carey, SSJ | To me the death penalty is inhumane and unconscionable. Innocence compounds the insanity! How can we claim to be civilized and governed by the ideals we proclaim in our constiution and at the same time retain state sponsored murder for anyone and in this case for an innocent one! |
| 425 | Kathleen Boyle | If new information has come to light that would prove a person is innocent, every step should be taken to insure that the legal system looks into it.
This is extremely important, if an innocent person's life depends on it. |
| 426 | Claire McManus | If the innocent are not safe, no one is safe. Justice is when the innocent are safe and the guilty are punished, and that is what we have been taught is an American value. Values are not abstract; people live and die by them. |
| 427 | mary scherr | False accusations abound. |
| 428 | S. Marian Behrle | Our constitution professes the right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Troy has a right to "life". |
| 429 | Anonymous | I believe that an Innocent person should not be punished. |
| 430 | Judith Wolf | As an innocent person would you want your life taken because another person mistakenly charges you with a crime? |
| 431 | Anonymous | Certainly with all the irregularities and questionable circumstances which have surfaced in the case of Troy Davis, it is clear that he is innocent, or at the very least, cannot be proven guilty beyond a doubt. Do we have the right to add another crime of murder to our government's conscience? |
| 432 | janice mcgrane | troy deserves a fair trial. |
| 433 | Brandi Rumbach | The United States is considered the police of the world. We are everywhere trying to instil justice and here we are denying it. Unless the history books have changed we have been and still are going by the motto "innocent until proven guilty". There is no proof so how can this man be guilty? |
| 434 | Louise Kane | Because it's the LAW! |
| 435 | Sheila Murphy | If there is any doubt as to guilt, we must always err on the side of innocence. When there is no doubt as to guilt, we we must always support life - not death. |
| 436 | Dorothy Crowley,SSJ | Innocence matters to me because I truly CARE for the person whose life has been shattered by being blamed for something he/she is not guilty of. It is hard enough to make mistakes inlife and live with them, but when you are innocent and you have to deal with blame that is doubly hard. |
| 437 | |Pauline S. Plefka,SSJ | Why would we not look at new evidence that could help prove someone innocent. Why do we even consider the death penalty? Only God has the right to judge people. |
| 438 | Marie Olwell | Life is precious especially when you are not guilty of the crime you apparently committed. |
| 439 | Patricia E. Loughrey | Life is a precious gift. I don't believe we have the right to take it away from ANYONE, but especially from someone who didn't commit the crime of which he is accused. |
| 440 | Mary Ann Mulzet, SSJ | Because it is wrong to kill in the first place. |
| 441 | Fabrizio Pietro Sibilla | Innocence matters because life is so precious: all its moments, all its seconds and and all its sides are unique and absolutely to preserve in all the ways!!!!! The man can't decide what only God can deside!! |
| 442 | Eileen | IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO !!! |
| 443 | Anonymous | There is no return from the death penalty. You cannot give a man his life back after you take it. |
| 444 | Archbishop Patrick Batuyong, RRC | I do not support the death penalty. |
| 445 | Maria Dillon, SSJ | Every person has a right to have a fair and just trial and to have a defense team that really works to prove your innocence. The trial for Troy Davis was not just nor was it interested in seeking the truth.
Mr. Davis deserves a new trial. |
| 446 | Ian Wilder | It is wrong for society to kill. |
| 447 | Labrouve | Innocence matters to me. How can we let somebody get killed whereas everyone knows he is innocent? It is a nonsense. If being innocent is not enough to stay alive and free then what is it worth? |
| 448 | Jerry Clanton | First and formost, I do not believe in the death penalty. Secondly, if proof is given that he is NOT guilty then it should be stopped. |
| 449 | Maryanne Zakreski | WE need to consider the innocence of the persons being tried. Otherwise, the courts are a sham, and we are. Our own moral character is at stake. |
| 450 | Mary Jane Daily, SSJ | Innocence is a fundamental matter of justice and the justice system. |