04-07-2012, 07:39 PM
no peace. never over.
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Columbus, Georgia (CNN) -- At 10:57 that September night, the Georgia attorney general's office notified Anneliese MacPhail that the intravenous needle was in Troy Davis' arm.
MacPhail could not believe what she was hearing, not after a legal odyssey that prompted cries of injustice from celebrities, the pope and former U.S. presidents.
Her phone rang again 13 minutes later. This time, she heard Davis was dead.
"It's over," she said.
It wasn't.
Davis' execution ended 22 all-consuming years of waiting to see the man she believed was her son's killer pay for his crime.
Yet it has not brought her the peace she sought ever since an earlier phone call roused her from bed on a sultry August night with news that her son Mark had been shot to death.
Six months after the spectacle of the Davis execution, MacPhail is still haunted by loss. And she is still hounded by those who blame her family for putting to death a man whose guilt was widely questioned.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/07/us/troy-da...?hpt=hp_c1
and davis' sister's view:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/07/us/troy-da...?hpt=hp_c1
Columbus, Georgia (CNN) -- At 10:57 that September night, the Georgia attorney general's office notified Anneliese MacPhail that the intravenous needle was in Troy Davis' arm.
MacPhail could not believe what she was hearing, not after a legal odyssey that prompted cries of injustice from celebrities, the pope and former U.S. presidents.
Her phone rang again 13 minutes later. This time, she heard Davis was dead.
"It's over," she said.
It wasn't.
Davis' execution ended 22 all-consuming years of waiting to see the man she believed was her son's killer pay for his crime.
Yet it has not brought her the peace she sought ever since an earlier phone call roused her from bed on a sultry August night with news that her son Mark had been shot to death.
Six months after the spectacle of the Davis execution, MacPhail is still haunted by loss. And she is still hounded by those who blame her family for putting to death a man whose guilt was widely questioned.
FULL STORY:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/07/us/troy-da...?hpt=hp_c1
and davis' sister's view:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/07/us/troy-da...?hpt=hp_c1