Whew! That was close!

Our Judicial system, the envy of the world, successfully manages to kill Troy Davis before too much evidence of his possible innocence accrues and public demand to revisit the case creates a big paperwork headache for everybody.  The important thing is that we got somebody killed, not whether or not they, you know, deserved it.  Moloch requires sacrifice and isn’t that picky about who he eats.

Update: My pal Secret Agent Man tells me (in the combox) to cool my jets on the “innocence” thing and I think he’s got a point (though I also think the case still looks pretty dodgy too). I’m not going to go to the mat for his innocence particularly, but what bugs me is that there seems to have been little interest in “the process” for the fact that a good chunk of the testimony against him looks pretty shady. I’m opposed to the DP even if he were guilty, but part of what bugs me about it as well as that a sort of bureaucratic inertia decrees that a prisoner, once found guilty, must be executed even when there are real doubts about his guilty. Rick Perry swaggering conscience-free approach to questions of executing possibly innocent men is the paradigm here and that’s what I was (over) reacting to in this case.

I will have some more to say about the DP tomorrow. But right now I’m off to a Boy Scout Court of Honor.