Time of death 11:08.
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Democracy Now livestream is getting mixed reports, possibly a stay has been granted by SCOTUS? There's much confusion... will update if we hear more clear news. Not good news yet. It sounds like NO Stay... but they're saying Troy has not been executed...yet.
UPDATE 7:12PM: it's a temporary reprieve while the court decides. Not a stay.
UPDATE 7:35PM: h/t cotterperson comment
Troy Davis' execution was delayed tonight as the Supreme Court weighed arguments by Davis' legal team and the state of Georgia over whether he deserves a stay.
At 7:05 p.m. tonight, five minutes after his scheduled death, Davis' supporters erupted in cheers, hugs and tears outside the jail in Jackson, Ga., as supporters believed Davis had been saved from the death penalty. But the Supreme Court only granted a temporary reprieve as it considers the decision.
The Supreme Court could decide at any time tonight or in the next seven days whether to go through with his execution.
Troy Davis' execution was delayed tonight as the Supreme Court weighed arguments by Davis' legal team and the state of Georgia over whether he deserves a stay.
At 7:05 p.m. tonight, five minutes after his scheduled death, Davis' supporters erupted in cheers, hugs and tears outside the jail in Jackson, Ga., as supporters believed Davis had been saved from the death penalty. But the Supreme Court only granted a temporary reprieve as it considers the decision.
The Supreme Court could decide at any time tonight or in the next seven days whether to go through with his execution.
abcnews
see also guardian uk
UPDATE4: 7:53PM: please see these other diaries for more news & updates. Everyone is most welcome here to continue to share thoughts, prayers or maybe some music in comments (while I go cook dinner!)
I Am Troy Davis, with updates
How Can So Many Voices Be Ignored with updates
The Words of the Recanting Witnesses in the Troy Davis Case
UPDATE @ 10:38PM EDT: SC have refused to block the execution of Troy Davis.
Tragic news. My heart.... goes out to his family.
Blessed be.
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They can take my body but not my spirit, because I have given my spirit to God.
~Troy Davis
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tonight’s expected execution of Troy Davis brings inconceivable pain and loss to his family and friends. But it should also bring deep self-probing to us as a country, forcing us to ask ourselves agonizing questions:
How can our system of justice be comfortable executing a man despite such substantive doubts as to his guilt?
How can our country possibly justify taking an unarmed, captive human being, and killing that human being?
Who are we as a people if we, sanctioned by the state, intentionally and with premeditation wrack a family with grief?
from: A Circle of Prayer for Troy Davis and the Country That Would Kill Him
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
~Khalil Gibran
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
~Ramsey Clark, New York Times, Jul. 3, 1968
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government sponsored execution.
~ Russ Feingold
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists.
~ Albert Camus
“The struggle for justice doesn’t end with me.
This struggle is for all the Troy Davis’s who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.
I’m in good spirits and I’m prayerful and at peace.
But I will not stop fighting until I’ve taken my last breath.”
~ Troy Anthony Davis
3:58 PM PT: I'm requesting all to honor a moment of silence at 7:00PM EDT, including refraining from comments.