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For those of you who don’t live in this primitive backwoods state of Georgia, I just thought I should update you on what a pathetic day Tuesday is going to be.

The state is going to kill a man on our behalf and they haven’t got a damn clue what they’re doing. Troy Davis, 39*, was convicted of shooting a Savannah police officer and is sentenced to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m., Tuesday, September 23. Quasi-religious Republican bullshit about a “culture of life” aside, here’s what sucks.

• No physical evidence tying Troy Davis to the crime.
• Murder weapon never recovered.
• Conviction based entirely on witness testimony, but wait, there’s more:
• “Seven of Nine” is not just a hot busty cyborg on Star Trek. Seven of nine of the witnesses against Troy Davis have since recanted, some citing pressure and coercion by police to extract their testimony.
• The eighth of nine is the only other chief suspect in the case, who has been implicated by others in affidavits.

The Board of Paroles and Pardons doesn’t give a crap about any of that. The Supreme Court of the United States agreed, before the date of his execution was set, to hear his appeal on September 29, six days after he’s dead; the Board of Paroles and Pardons doesn’t give a crap about that either, they want to hurry up and kill him first.

That is SO Jesus-like of our government. And they’re doing this on my behalf. That’s just great. But don’t worry, so-called Christians, I’ll pray for you. Maybe.

Updates from Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, and the official Troy Davis website.

* Oh and, just to prove what a bunch of competent attention-to-detail type people they are, the Board of Pardons and Paroles list Troy Davis’s age as 38 in their statement denying him clemency, even though he’s 39 and they said he was 38 last year (correctly). Glad they’re making life-or-death decisions.

Oh yeah, just for the record, even Pope Benedict has called for officials to reconsider the case, but I guess politicians of this sort only listen to him when he’s talking about blastocysts.