Peter Luc

Troy Davis Article

Monday, September 29, 2008

The main players in Davis' story are 39 year old Troy Davis himself who has been sitting on death row ever since August 19, 1989, the homeless man, and a 27 year old Mark Macphail. Troy Davis was trying to help a homeless man while he was pistol whipped in a parking lot. After that, Troy was accused of killing the off duty police officer and was sentenced to death. In 2007, Davis had his first execution date and was granted a stay of execution for up to 90 days. A re-trial was requested but was denied. Now Davis is trying to get a re-trial from the unjust system to prove that he is innocent.

In the article, there is the incident happening in a Burger King parking lot with Troy trying to help a homeless man while Mark comes and gets killed. There are trials going on on if Troy should die by lethal injection, but there are still trials going on to see if Troy will get a re-trial or if he will get killed. I can lso include Martin Luther King Jr. into the scenery because Lewis talks about the ways people were trying to reduce the racism that was going on, but is still a difficult problem til this day.

Troy is still incarcerated because there are still evidence that Troy is innocent. There is evidence that people have that can still prove that he is innocent so there is a trial still going on to see if Troy is innocent or not. Troy is against capital punishment and no one should be sentenced to a death penalty without having a fair trial frist.