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Old 09-22-2011, 01:49 PM   #56
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Georgia is actually one of the few states where that type of testing can be used in a court of law. However I personally believe it was declined to be used for the simply fact that a higher court was reviewing the case and I know from case law polygraphs are not a norm or accepted much into federal proceedings.

However I wish if not for any other reason that he would have been granted permission to take one. It's the least this country could have done after locking him up like an animal for 22 year with 16 of that being done on death row. It's almost like our legal system just did not want to see the truth here.

I am not one to racially separate anything but I would be willing to put money on the fact that if Troy Davis was a white man we would not be having this discussion this morning. Ugh my stomach is still turning this morning. I am just flat out sickened and saddened by what has taken place.
That is on the lines of why I was looking up case law. And thank you for the post BTW. So much about this I am not understanding, as is the case with most of us. 16 years he spent in an 8 ft by 8 ft cell, 23 hours a day. That in it's self seems so inhumane (to me) and again, back to the polygraph...do you think he could of passed one...imagine his own mental torment. I'd bet no natural light comes into a death row inmates cell. That one hour a day he is out,does that include shower....(3 times a week) I realize they were grasping for straws, I really do. I appologize I didn't make myself clear-er....but do you think he'd of passed that polygraph, even if it was admissable? Can you imagine how living the way they had him living/ and with the propencity existing he is innocent, HELLO? WILL ANY BODY LISTEN TO ME, (tick tock tick tock tick tock) thats why I wasn't getting the polygraph thing. I was afraid it would have sealed his fate. But today, in retrospect. He had nothing to loose.
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