Troy Davis Executed in Georgia

One of the reasons that I am proud to be a inhabitant of the State of Michigan is that this state has never had a death penalty since its founding over 160 years ago.
I find the death penalty repulsive and one of the worst examples of gutter morality... or talking-round-the-bar morality, or 4 drinks down and let's talk religion, politics, and Ethics morality.

Any proponent of the death penalty sooner or later has recourse to the Narrative of the senseless and hideous death of some perfectly innocent person to justify the death penalty. Indeed, they argue that the heinous nature of the act justifies the extreme penalty.
I think what they are saying is that the heinous nature of the crime justifies the heinous nature of the judicial retribution. The question is when do we allow ourselves the right to commit an atrocity? Apparently it is enough to have a Board of Review, regardless of the thoroughness of its operations: we have a board of review and it reviewed... neglect the fact that its deliberations themselves were flawed by the insidious nature of the extended mind's view of itself as "The Law! It is myself!"

After Al Qaida bombed Manhattan, we took 10 years to kill the man in charge, and then continued a war we started against the Taliban whose offense was they would not arrest him on our say so and hand him over back in 2001.
I submit that not only are our social leaders inept, but we as a society are guilty of gross malfeasance: our anger, our horror, our fear justifies years and years of fruitless war and the wasting of precious lives and the squandering of monies that could have been used to make our own country better.
Ten years so spent are seen as a triumph by our group mind, whereas ten years of "bootless war" in other days and other places is seen as tragic. It took Agamemnon ten years to fulfill his vow to conquer Troy; he returned home to the ruins of his own life.
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