Troy Davis.

Yesterday the State of Georgia killed a man by injection for being accused of the homicide of an off work police officer in the early 1990s. In 1991 Davis was convicted and sentenced to the death penalty. It then took 20 years to execute him. Even though a small majority of citizens of the United States disagree with the dealt penalty as a sentence for any crime. Davis is one case where we see a large influx of people who start to believe and understand that he was innocent. Still he could never convince a jury of just that. Even to his last day his last hours he was saying that it was not his fault, that he never had a gun.

With this story there are two questions that come into our minds. First being under any circumstances, would be executing anyone acceptable. Regardless of the money we save, regardless of the impression it is suppose to send to people contemplating the same crime, and any other supposed reasons for keeping the death penalty. The second question is Do we  ever understand everything? Can we ever be possitive that one person took one action and the other did not do the same thing? Can we know for certain that anyone is guilty? How can we infer if what we see, or guess, or that your hypothesis are reality? How can we be sure and are we ever sure that certain people like Davis were guilty?