On The Troy Davis' Execution

It was a very disquieting evening for me, I was trying my best to not feel the tension and anxiety of the execution world drama. Anxiety never seems to help, it only adds distaste to an already bad meal.

The spin is that people are demanding that we take another look at the death penalty and to somehow build a momentum to re-evaluate it, maybe even end it.

AlterNet: The Long, Murderous Arm of the Law Has Killed Troy Davis

Amnesty International director Larry Cox offered that, importantly, the massive movement that developed around this case offers an opportunity to question this country’s values. And it offers a chance to engage the many people who are repulsed that the state would murder in our names and yet remain silent about it. “We have to take people who were against the death people and never did anything about it,” Cox told Goodman, and mobilize them. “Now is the time.”