Troy Davis - Guilty or Innocent?

[suebee]

Originally Posted by AtLastHome

I didn't follow all of the media coverage on the SC stay- this is outrageous! The man is now dead. I don't understand why if the Court requested a delay, the execution was just not called off- why a time frame was part of this motion for delay? 24-48 hours- something like that.

Personally, I think that if the US Supreme Court agrees to hear matters in a stay of execution, there should be an automatic time frame in which the court can study the facts. It is bad enough that these situations always seem to be heard by the SC at the very last moment. How the hell can the Court rule on a case like this (with 23 years of material) in a couple of hours??

I think that the court was only considering the very narrow parameters of the appeal. Justice Thomas likely did not have to review the entire case - only the matters pertaining to arguments made by Davis' lawyers. But I agree - a short delay like that is a kind of torture in and of itself, especially given that nobody had any idea if it was to last an hour or a week.