Thursday 9/22/11

The New York Times misspelt the last name of the former president of the Oregon State University on Tuesday.

I looked at the article about the death row inmate Troy Davis, because I had already seen that he had been put to death early this morning. The article in the Times was written before the execution and talked about him as though he was still alive. Davis was convicted and sentenced for allegedly killing a police officer, but the after the trial some of the evidence and testimony in the case was disproven or renounced. Going on just what the article said, it seems like there should have been enough reasonable doubt to stay the execution. However, I hadn’t heard of this case before, and I cannot form an opinion on this without learning about the case.  The thing that struck me was that this was Davis’s fourth time facing the death penalty. I cannot imagine the stress and fear any person, guilty or innocent, must feel after repeatedly being sentenced to die, only to be given a reprieve until the next sentencing.