Troy Davis has received a stay!
Troy Davis has received a stay!
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THE STORY OF ONE VETERAN
By Margaret Summers
Manny Babbitt was a Marine, a Vietnam War veteran whose demonstrated courage earned him a Purple Heart. Manny Babbitt was a survivor of the battle of Khe Sanh where 737 Americans died and more than 2500 soldiers were wounded. Manny was hit by rocket shrapnel that opened up his skull. He lost consciousness and was thought to be dead. He was loaded onto a pile of corpses by helicopter operators where he regained consciousness surrounded by severed limbs and bodies.
Manny returned from his service in Viet Nam suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) exhibiting bizarre and violent behavior. Finally he broke into the home of Leah Shendel, an elderly woman, and beat her. She later died of a heart attack.
Manny’s brother Bill Babbitt turned him in to authorities believing that he owed it to the larger community and expecting that his mentally ill brother, the war hero, would get the medical attention that he needed and deserved.
KACZYNSKI SPEAKS ON TROY DAVIS CASE
The State of Georgia is preparing to execute a man named Troy Davis. Convicted and sentenced to death in 1991, Davis has always proclaimed his innocence in the murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. Since the murder weapon was never found, and since there was never any physical evidence linking Davis to the crime, the jury relied on eyewitness testimony to convict him. There were nine witnesses in all who placed Davis at the scene of the crime, including some who identified him as the perpetrator. Sounds like an ironclad case, right? more .
KACZYNSKI TO SENATE: LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS! THEY VOTE NO TO RESTORING DEATH PENALTY
(From an NYADP press release dated June 18 2008.)
Republican state senators who today cynically voted to reinstate the death penalty – a move they know has no chance of becoming law – should listen to their own constituents who have overwhelmingly told them they do not support the death penalty in on-line polls the senators posted.
“Senators should listen to their own constituents who, like the majority of all New Yorkers, have learned that we can live without the death penalty,” said David Kaczynski, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, which collected the information from the senator’s own websites. See entire press release.
OTHER NEWS
While State Court of Appeals holds death penalty unconstitutional, use of federal death penalty in state is growing. 3.19.08
With no death penalty in NY and NJ, what’s next? 12.23.07
Kaczynski hails abolition of death penalty in New Jersey. New York State achieved de facto abolition in October. 12.17.07
What New Yorkers say about reinstating death penalty. 10.07
New York is the national leader in this decade in DNA-based exonerations. 10.18.07
Additional stories on our News and Coming Events pages.
Also by David Kaczynski
On eighth exoneration in New York State in a year. 1.23.07
On New York’s shameful record as a national leader in wrongful convictions. 10.18.07
On renewed calls for State death penalty. 4.25.07
On Commission Call for Abolition in New Jersey. 1.2.07
On freeing of Peekskill inmate wrongly jailed for 17 years. 9.20.06
In Memorium. 9.6.06