Capital Punishment: Troy Davis

I'm a long time vigorous opponent of the death penalty. 

I grew up in a family of lawyers, and one thing that will teach you is that justice is essentially a human instutitution, constructed out of flypaper and chewing-gum wrappers by people who drink too much and have unhappy marriages, or whose romantic natures cloud their judgment. 

Nothing wrong with that.  Best we've got.

But it's nothing to hang a human life on.

Troy Davis: what to say about him?   The best and worst cases have been presented against the state of Georgia.  What ultimately remains to be said is that a government that can't balance its own budget, that can't establish order in a backwoods Middle Eastern region, that can't finally settle its own debt ceiling has permitted a state to end the life of a human being.

So it goes, man.

So it goes.

Just stop it.