Dear God/ess, I am Troy Davis.
We are Troy Davis.

An innocent man was executed in the State Of Georgia last night.

A society that kills people as a punishment is not modeling a redemptive example to our children and grandchildren. A society that kills animals and people is not going to convince anyone to do the right thing.

We have a strictly punitive criminal justice system here in this country. What happens to a person who has not committed murder, and is locked up for years, treated like an animal without rehabilitation and then released to an unsuspecting population? How does this serve anyone, the person who committed the crime and the people s/he must go forth and co-mingle with?

The American tax-payer subsidizes this barbaric and medieval system of so called justice, which in fact creates  more criminals. When society  judges a person on the worst thing s/he ever did in his (or her)  life, there is very little room for redemption.

Since 1973, 138 Americans were convicted of murder and sentenced to death and subsequently exonerated, found to be innocent of their crime. An untold number have been put to death, claiming to be innocent. Many people  have lost respect for bureaucrats and politicians these days because they commit crimes and escape punishment. If our government is indeed convicting and killing innocent people, how can We The People continue to allow these atrocities to continue?

How can we redeem our social humanitarian values from the ashes of a system that no longer serves the Common Good?

Today over half the countries of the world have abolished the Death Penalty, while we continue to execute folks at a rate unparalleled  at any other time in American History.

So we take personal responsibility. We face the truth of our broken system and become honest and integrated people. In this process, we discover our inner grace and ability to forgive.

We do this because there is no other choice.

Om Peace Amen

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