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Troy Davis's last hours


Strapped to a gurney, and at the centre of raging international controversy, Troy Davis died the way he has spent the past 22 years: still vigorously protesting his innocence. The death row prisoner at the centre of one of the most disputed cases in American legal history lost his long-running legal battle despite desperate late efforts by his lawyers.

The 42-year-old convicted murderer was given a lethal injection half an hour after the US Supreme Court rejected his final request for a stay of execution on Tuesday. Fifteen minutes later, at 11.08pm (4.08am GMT), he was officially pronounced dead. A coroner's van later hauled his body away from the Georgia State Diagnostic Prison, near the town of Jackson.

Addressing some of his last words to the family of the victim, Mark MacPhail, who were in the viewing gallery, Davis lifted his head as needles were inserted into his arm, and insisted, as he always has done, that he was not responsible for killing the young, off-duty police officer.

“I am innocent. The incident that happened that night was not my fault,” he said, according to the four US media representatives who attended. “I personally did not have a gun. I was not the one who took the life of your father, son, brother.”

Davis then turned to prison officials. “For those about to take my life, may God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.”

Those were his final words. As the lethal drugs worked their way into his system, Davis began blinking rapidly. Then he squeezed them tightly shut. After that, a curtain was drawn over the window which separated the viewing area from the execution chamber.

It was a grisly end to a case which has sparked international outrage, and the condemnation of organisations as varied as[b] the European Union, Amnesty International, the Catholic Church, and the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People. Over a million people, from around the world, signed a petition calling for Davis to be spared.[/b]

A crowd of 700 supporters had gathered at Georgia State Diagnostic Prison, near the town of Jackson, where the execution chamber is located. They greeted confirmation of his death by crying, holding hands, and praying, in near silence. A smaller group of roughly 10 counter-protesters cheered.

Lawyers for Davis spent the final day of his life making increasingly frantic efforts to call a halt to proceedings. The Georgia Superior Court and Georgia Supreme Court both refused to issue a stay of execution, which had been previously scheduled and then cancelled four times in recent years, in circumstances which are said by psychologists to have amounted to torture.

For a time, it looked like the US Supreme Court might intervene, as it did two years ago, issuing last-minute instructions for Georgia's legal system to reconsider Davis's conviction. This time, the highest court in the land delayed his execution - originally scheduled for 7pm - for four hours. But it ultimately decided not to make a second intervention in the case. No reason for that decision was cited.

Earlier, prison authorities had refused to let Davis take a polygraph test which was intended to help keep his case alive in the months and years to come. His attorney Stephen Marsh, who was turned away at the gate of the facility, told reporters: “We came here to try and prove Mr Davis is innocent and unfortunately we were denied that opportunity.”

Several hours before the execution, the condemned man's pastor, the Rev Raphael Warnock, was also prevented from paying him a visit during his final hours. No explanation was given. “We wanted to do a pastoral visit, to offer comfort and last rites if you will, to pray,” he said. “It's another insult to this injustice.”

Davis turned down the opportunity to choose a special last meal. He was therefore presented with the prison's standard-issue dinner: grilled cheeseburgers, oven-browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape drink.

The execution came 20 years after Davis was found guilty of the murder of MacPhail. The case has been in and out of court ever since, as increasing doubts were cast on his conviction. The Pope, the former President Jimmy Carter and a host of public figures have spoken out against his conviction.

They say the case represents a textbook example of the flaws of the US capital punishment system.

And it carries political heat because he was a black man from the Deep South, where a disproportionate number of executed criminals hail from ethnic minorities.

Supporters believe Davis was all-too-hastily arrested and charged, by white police officers who were angered by the killing of one of their own and who leapt to conclusions regarding his guilt. After his death, lawyers for Davis described his killing as a “legal lynching” saying the execution was “racially bigoted”. [/b]They told reporters: “In the state of Georgia 48.4 percent of people on death row this morning were black males, and in Georgia they make up no more than 15 percent of the population.”

With this in mind, thousands of demonstrators spent Tuesday in Atlanta, in a mood which grew increasingly angry as the execution time approached. At one point, riot police were deployed, and helicopters took to the air. But no violence was reported.
[b]
Polls show that 57 percent of Americans believe Davis is innocent, and there is a school of thought that his execution could herald a tipping point in public attitudes to the death penalty.

The US currently executes more people than any country in the world except China, Iran, North Korea and Yemen. Although just over 60 percent of the public still support capital punishment, that number appears to have been slowly falling since the 1990s.

DNA technology has allowed several death row inmates to be exonerated in recent years, denting faith in the system.

A final message to supporters of Davis came from Edward Dubose, a member of the Georgia NAACP who spoke to the condemned man during the afternoon. “Troy wanted me to let you know - keep the faith. The fight is bigger than him , The death penalty in this country needs to end. They call it execution; we call it murder.”

The last day - 09.00-15.00

Davis is allowed visitors for the last time.

16.00

He declines the opportunity to choose his final meal. Prison staff give him a standard prison meal of cheeseburgers, potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, biscuits and a grape-flavoured drink.

18.00

Those chosen to witness the execution enter Jackson's Diagnostic and Classification Prison. Around 700 people, mostly supporters of Davis, stand outside.

19.00

As the time originally scheduled for the execution passes, it becomes apparent that the US Supreme Court has intervened - prompting cheers from the crowd outside the prison.

22.15

After more than three hours, hopes of a postponement or reprieve are dashed when the court rules that the execution will go ahead.

22.30

“Y'all ready?” a correctional officer asks the five reporters chosen to witness the execution. Davis is strapped to the gurney in the death chamber and a warden reads the execution order. Davis lifts his head and uses his last words to protest his innocence to the relatives of the murdered police officer Mark MacPhail. He asks his own family to “keep the faith” and asks God to have mercy on the souls of the medical staff about to put him to death.

23.08

Around 14 minutes after the injection is administered, Troy Davis is declared dead. -

I hope electrical's Dr Aliu is not on that list! He doesn't deserve it!

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Nice Effort!!!

Melinde:
Rubbisssh!!! who told you that the silly scamer priest is a catholic priest scammer? which parish is he under? Is the catholic Bishop of Abuja aware of it, , did he identify him as one of his priestsscammers? [b]just want to you [/b]that your so call scamer priest disguised himself as a priest scammer to get his victims period,

And who are you to be in the position to let us know?

Are you related?

seanet02:
Look at pdp goons deceiving themselves. SMH

And displaying their stupidity in public!

Your pocket first!

If 18months is enough to rob the Nation blind. . . .

If it's not scamming, it will be molesting kids or people's wives!

This naija sef!

How many times! Is he the one staying at Aso Rock!!!!!!

Too much ethnic sentiments!

Why hold on to a corpse this long?

They should bury it!

I have never believed this woman to be Clean!

Na beans!

Boko Haram dey there, dem no fit catch, na weed hustlers dem dey hustle!

Pro02!!! You are killing the thread please!

Mr Norrissman! No mind them, I dey your back! Nothing is happening?

tunde300us:
U mean they have more stolen money than mee rite,i want to assume ure just being mischievous with this your comment

Femi Kuti's place his a weed spot! I have seen the sister supervising blunt sales!

Femi is rich, I am not saying he"s richer than you. Femi is not a thief! He's just another

hustler! U get?

Come back for where?

I trust my Mama!!!

It's better you just go hang with a friend or get your own place but back to your Mother's place?

It's a big failure and shame to the family!

@Somze. C'mon don't embarrass yourself nah!

As long as they aint robbing and murdering people!

It's their hustle abeg! Man must chop!

It's not even about you! It's suppose to be an embarrassment to your folks!

nassiwa:
I would go back to my parents' home with no second thought in case of any Fight With my Husband.i dont see anything wrong with it. i would not mind about whatever people say If my parents are ready to welcome me.

Esp, when your husband catches you and your boyfriend red handed playing Ludo

on his marital bed! Raise your head, go home then you can explain to your neighbors,

childhood friends and your parents's visitors the reason why you are back to their house

watching Kanayo O Kanayo on their TV after two kids!

All these Men wey inherit houses built in the early 60"s sef!!!

Make the man sell the house, pay up for stolen items and go to jail! Chikena!

When he eventually returns without a home, he can take up a small space in a grounded bus under Oshodi bridge!

It's the cool air from the conditioner!

Yes, I keep recycling 2 or 3 names because birds of same feathers flock together! Not all billionaires are thieves!

I know how 95percent of Nigerians overseas(same feather) live unless if anyone wants to convince me other wise.

I just hate it when people keep blaming the government and other people for their misfortunes.

It ain't ma fault! I am just another hustler trying to make a decent living and I have my role models!

I'm outta here because I am already sensing the frustration before anyone takes it out on me!

Abeg, bring back the story of your "friend" o!!

Awka- The Police in Anambra on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly cutting off his aunt’s head and dumping her body in the cesspit of an uncompleted building.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Emeka Chukwuemeka, told newsmen in Awka that the suspect had confessed to the crime and was being held along with the aunt’s mother, brother and sister.

Chukwuemeka said that in spite of the confession by the prime suspect, the police would carry out further investigations to unravel the motive behind the crime.

“This is a heinous crime as far as we are concerned. We are working on the lead that he could not have committed the crime alone. We will eventually arrest those that must have carried out the act with him,” he said.

He said the crime was committed at Amawbia, near Awka, adding that the deceased, Mrs Margaret Nwanna, was said to have gone missing last week Friday.

“But none of the family members who lived in the same house with her could give account of her whereabouts.

“It was then that concerned relations of the deceased called the police who arrested every member of the household.

“It was during police interrogation that the suspect was said to have confessed to the crime and took the police to the place where the body of the deceased was dumped.

“Family sources said that there was no love lost between the deceased and the family of the prime suspect before the deceased was killed,” he added. (NAN)



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/police-arrest-man-for-beheading-aunt/

Nothing but the truth!

We can as well keep pushing all the blames- armed robbery, kidnapping, planting of bombs , 419, corruption on the Islamic northerners!

Now everybody is complaining about tribalism because this case had affected them one way or the order!

How many of y'all has risen to the defense of the heavy bashing of the hausas going on here on daily basis!

Snakes and Fakes!

I believe Everybody is putting their mouth where their money is!

Your so called richest Hollywood star is not worth a quarter what Dantata is worth

Dangote"s worth about $13.8b, Adenuga is rated 8th richest man in Africa!

They made it this far in their respective businesses making right decisions at the right time, if they
have now decided living and owning their apartments in a "Slum", they definitely know what they are doing!

You should respect that. It's nobody's business! No need for bad blood!

You can go ahead keep living in better apartments, more conducive environment and the rest of your imaginations on pages of Nairaland.

It's all good but We know berra!

They are all thieves including GEJ and Alams! Alongside their boss OBJ, they are more corrupt than Abacha

It's just unfortunate that Abacha is a scape goat used to boast every administration's fight against corruption.

The next government will recover more Abacha loot, then the next after and it will continue like that till we finally break up.

ABUJA, - The Federal Government has recovered £22.5m (about N6.18 billion) loot
from the family of the late Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha.



There are plans to recover $400million more, it was learnt yesterday.

The money is stashed away in the tiny Island of Jersey from where the £22.5m was recovered two weeks ago.

Jersey is an Island off the coast of Normandy, France.

Jersey and the Bailiwick of Guemsey are often referred to as the channel of Islands.
They are not part of the United Kingdom (UK), but the UK is constitutionally responsible
for the defence of Jersey.

Although not part of the European Union, Jersey is treated as a member for the purposes of free trade in goods.

The latest recovery adds to the millions of dollars and pounds recovered from the family
of Gen. Abacha, who died 13 years ago.

It was gathered that the loot was recovered by a three-man negotiating team, led by Attorney-General of
the Federation Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN). The team visited the Island.

Damien Dodo (SAN) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Secretary Emmanuel Akonmaye
were on the delegation.

A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “Gen. Abacha stashed the funds through a Lebanese.

“When the Office of the AGF was alerted by a whistle-blower, the government opened discussions with the
Attorney-General of the Island of Jersey, who cooperated fully with the government, leading to the repatriation of the £22.5m.

“An agreement was signed with Adoke’s team and the loot has been repatriated to the Federal Government’s treasury.”

The source, however, added that in the process of repatriation of the N6.18billion, $400million was uncovered.

The source added: “Again, the AG of the Island of Jersey has offered to cooperate with the Federal Government to repatriate the $400million.

“We will soon start negotiation with the government of Island of Jersey.”

The Abacha family is said to be panicky over the government’s fresh moves.

It was gathered that the family was shocked by the return of the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

A source said: “Some members of the family have not been comfortable since the return of Mrs Okonjo-Iweala,
who facilitated the repatriation of over $600m stashed away by the family in Switzerland.

“As if to underscore her determination to repatriate more looted funds, Okonjo-Iweala even wrote a letter
of commendation to AGF Adoke to encourage him to help relocate more of Abacha loot in other parts of the world.

“Some members of the Abacha family have been meeting with some government officials to prevail on the government for reprieve.”

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the National Seminar on Economic Crimes, held at the EFCC Training
School in Abuja yesterday, the AGF alluded to the recovery of the looted fund, but did not give details.

He said: “Only recently, we negotiated the recovery and repatriation of the sum of £22.5m from the Island
of Jersey, being the proceeds of money laundered from Nigeria.

“I wish to seize this opportunity to commend the Attorney-General of Jersey for the support and co-operation
we received and urge other jurisdictions to also extend to us the much-needed cooperation to enable us repatriate
stolen assets within their jurisdictions.”

Adoke said: “We also intend to vigorously pursue stolen assets and the confiscation of other instrumentalities of
crime within the country by strengthening our confiscatory and forfeiture laws.

“In this regard, we have commenced work on a comprehensive Assets Forfeiture legislation that will address the
present inadequacies in our various laws.

“The Nigerian Proceeds of Crime Act and Bribery Act are also in the pipeline. What these legislative interventions
portend for Nigeria is that we are actively responding to global initiatives to make corruption a high-risk venture
that is ultimately not rewarding.

“Other notable initiatives that we have embarked upon at the Federal Ministry of Justice is the drafting of
Regulations to give effect to the Terrorism (Prohibition) Act 2011 to aid the effective prevention and prosecution
of terror-related acts and the Regulations to give effect to the Freedom of Information Act 2011.”



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