I have said before and I will continue to say that as a death penalty supporter, this case has opened my eyes and seeded some some grave misgivings about the death penalty being used as vengeance and a misguided search for so-called peace of mind or finality for victim's families instead of removing a perpetrator of unacceptably heinous behavior from society.

Again, I see a lot of double standards with when and how the death penalty can be applied, and the absurdly low bar to clear in cases like this. Justice is not being served here; even if Troy Davis is in truth guilty, it is reprehensible that he be put to death based on nothing but circumstantial evidence. His life will end in more finality than his trial did and it is sickening.

Police can and do use whatever means necessary to get eyewitnesses to finger a suspect and people fear the police enough to give in to their pressure and tactics. The legal system obviously grinds people up and spits them out in one direction and there is little to no recourse in these types of cases. Public pressure and outcry is not enough to commute a questional death penalty verdict down to life in prison. In an imperfect world, people can and do fall through the cracks and get chewed up by the system, but this case seems to point out innumerable systemic flaws.

I truly despair.