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<\/a>.\u00a0 The important thing is that we got somebody killed, not whether or not they, you know,\u00a0deserved it.\u00a0 Moloch requires sacrifice and isn\u2019t that<\/em> picky about who he eats.<\/p>\n Update: My pal Secret Agent Man tells me (in the combox) to cool my jets on the \u201cinnocence\u201d thing and I think he\u2019s got a point (though I also think the case still looks pretty dodgy <\/a>too). I\u2019m 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 \u201cthe process\u201d for the fact that a good chunk of the testimony against him looks pretty shady. I\u2019m 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\u2019s what I was (over) reacting to in this case.<\/p>\n I will have some more to say about the DP tomorrow. But right now I\u2019m off to a Boy Scout Court of Honor.<\/p>\n