testified against him recanted and there was no physical evidence linking him to the i feel your pain. the problem that we have is i crime, there was strong evidence bet if you ask all four of us what does congress mean by tax reform you would get four of police mishandling of the different answers. to a lot of people on the hill, case. there s cases of innocent people i can tell you, lauri will back being sent to death row. me up on this i think, to a lot nearly 15 years since anthony of people on the hill, capitol hill, tax reform means cutting porter came within 50 hours of being executed in illinois after taxes. that s what it means. that s all they want to do is being exonerated and freed at cut taxes. they say they want to cut tax the last moment. rates but broaden the base to that story shook the state s help make up for the lost revenue. revenue neutral tax reform means governor. he asked his wife how does that happen? a few years later, ryan commuted by definition somebody
hardcore anti-death penalty people could put them together because we understood why it was unjust for davis. but i want aed to distress just as much that it was unjust for brewer as well even though we know he committed a heinous and horrible act. how do we get there? what is the argument that helps us get there? i have to say that interestingly enough, we have found out that the death penalty is not given to everybody equally. i know it s heinous murders happen, that everybody talked about it in maryland. there was some murders that were more important. you can t say the price of victims what they are. a lot of times when this thing happens, it s in this like the troy davis case, for instance. he was basically had i think nine people who said that he had committed this crime. in the end, there was only two that didn t retract their
getting tougher sentences. actually it s the opposite. victim characteristics seem to matter. if the victim is nonwhite you ll get away with less of presumption, which is a bigger scandal. look at the incarceration rates, come on. victim characteristics it would be worse. i think that my own view is that when you re looking at the mass incarceration problem, the troy davis case is in my opinion appalling and tragic but also part of a larger failure on the part of your legislators, your elected legislators who are the people who, for example, you have corruption and collusion at crime labs, systematic failures at every level. have you states passing laws saying i can t rid yoe tape a police officer engaging in abuses. it s not just at the level of the judge or the trial or the last minute stay of execution. it s about a systematic problem with the criminal justice system. that s an important point. actually, some of the hallmarks of the troy davis case, what s
interest on any day, but with the troy davis case and the debate over possible innocence there, it draws a lot of attention to your case. what happened here? i think what we can say is that we investigated a case from beginning to end and in that process turned up information that they were able to pass along that shed light on the innocence of these individuals. after that process they sent this case forward to a three-judge panel and there was a seven-day hearing where the panel listen and believe they got a fair hearing and the judges made a decision that the individuals had proven by clear and convincing evidence that they were innocent of the crimes for which they were previously convicted. they re always maintained their innocence and pled guilty to the killing of the 51-year-old man in the robbery to avoid i believe a life sentence or death sentence
the troy davis case is filled with reasonable doubt and the possibility of putting a man to g death for a crime he did not commit should scare us to the bone. the other state-sanctioned murder of the week, concluded just hours before troy davis , and it took place in texas, which one could call the murder capital. this situation is more morally loaded. a white supremacist chained a black man to the back of his pickup truck by his ankles and dragged him for miles. he was decapitated. this killer said he had no regrets and would do it again. if any situation calls for the death penalty, it s this one. a vicious, hateful, dangerous, unrepentant man who cruelly and torturously murdered. this is the time to exact revenge, right? no. i don t want him executed either. the state should be in the business of justice, not vengeance. the death penalty is like a wild west revenge concept that has no place in modern society. the way a nation treats its