By: Lynn Green
GO HERE FOR UPDATE as of 10/14/08
UPDATE: 9/23/08 – The U.S. Supreme Court has offered a stay as they further look at the case.
I believe in the death penalty, but only when a person has committed a horrible crime. A man named Troy Anthony Davis is set to die very soon. He is accused of killing a police officer in cold blood.
Here are the facts that the jury accepted as facts:
1. On August 19, 1989 a 27 year old officer named Mark McPhail was found face down in a fast food parking lot. He had been shot twice.
2. A young man named Larry Young indicated that earlier that morning (it was now 1:00 in the morning) he had been threatened with death by a Sylvester “Red” Coles because Coles wanted to rob him. According to Larry, Troy Anthony Davis then blindsided him by hitting him with a pistol. Larry consequently suffered a severe head injury.
3. Hearing that there was a problem in the parking lot, Officer McPhail (who was working that night as a security guard for the restaurant) asked the men to stop.
4. Instead of stopping, Troy Anthony Davis turned around and shot the officer point blank. He then cooly walked towards him and shot him again while he was wounded on the ground. Witnesses say that Davis was smiling as he finished the officer off.
Let’s pause there for a second. That officer was somebody’s son, brother, father, friend, loved one. He was working during his off duty hours as a security guard because he obviously needed the money. He was a human being who did not deserve to be murdered over nonsense.
NOW, let us look at the behavior of “Red” Coles and Troy Anthony Davis after this murder occurred:
5. Approximately a half hour after the officer was murdered, Red Coles showed up at his sister’s house and asked his sister to give him a different shirt to change into. Troy Anthony Davis showed up also and he requested that Coles’ sister give him the shirt that Coles had just changed out of.
6. Troy Anthony Davis then PROMPTLY FLED TO ATLANTA!
Hmmmm……Would someone care to explain why he fled prior to a suspect even being named? The police did not even yet have a suspect at the time he hauled tail.
For those who are crying and ranting and raving over the fact that Davis is scheduled for execution, imagine that the officer murdered was YOUR father, your son, your husband who was simply at work to earn a buck. Imagine your loved one being shot down in cold blood by a filthy thug. Would you be so fast—-like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, to go crying and praying over this cold blooded murderer?
People need to stop being so fast to run to the defense of criminals. Truth of the matter is, had you been the one there that night, YOU would have been pistol whipped as Larry Young was. And you possibly would have been shot to death in cold blood as the officer was.
Now, let us examine the behavior that Troy Anthony Davis exhibited prior to pistol whipping Larry and prior to murdering the officer:
7. Before murdering the officer in cold blood, Troy Anthony Davis showed up at a party at a home near Savannah. Some girls at the party dared to ignore this loser and he promptly informed several of his buddies that he wanted to “burn” the girls. He then promptly threatened, “I feel like doing something, anything”.
8. Keeping his promise, as a car was pulling off, Davis shot into the car and into the jaw of a young man named Michael Cooper.
9. Not long afterwards, Officer McPhail was shot to death by Troy Anthony Davis who obviously was on a murderous, demonic roll.
Court after court has denied this hoodlum’s appeals and he is scheduled to die at the hands of the sword of violence that he lived by. So of course Al Sharpton is involved and there is excuse after excuse for sparing this murderer’s life. Among the excuses is that some witnesses have changed their story; there is no murder weapon; there are no fingerprints; there is no DNA….blah, blah, blah!
Guess what there IS! There is a DEAD MAN, okay? I would not expect to see any DNA since he never touched the officer. He simply blew the poor guy away. I would not expect fingerprints since he never touched the officer and I would not expect a gun to surface since when he FLED, he had plenty of time to HIDE IT!
The fact that some witnesses have recanted their testimony means zero. I’ll tell you why. This crazy “no snitching” rule out there on the streets would compel them to lie by recanting. Also, the officer is indeed dead. He was murdered. Did a ghost kill him? NO. Troy Anthony Davis killed him and he would have killed anyone who got into his pathway that night.
My only hope for him is that he accepts Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior before he is executed. At least then his soul will have a peaceful resting place. And I truly do wish him and his family peace. But when you live by the sword, be prepared to die by that very sword.
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