In pursuing the ‘pro-death’ (anti-life) agenda, people violate biblical guidance, Blackstone,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone’s_formulation
and others.  Where are the so-called ‘Christians’ on this? 

Another aspect of cases like this hearkens to Rubensteins observation in ‘The Cunning of History’ about the inflexibility and inertia of government bureaucracies.  Again, I ask, why aren’t the ‘anti-big gummint’ people up in arms about this?  I suppose they think it can never happen to them?

While the NAACP has expressed its condemnation of the
planned execution of Davis, they have not petitioned the
President.

If just taking the opportunity to harpoon the President well
that is your prerogative but if you are commenting on his
ability to stop the Davis execution, you are wrong as
witnessed today by Michael Moore who also is revolted by
the sentence about the question of whether the President
has the option of interfering in state executions.  He doesn’t. 
While it might appear that the buck for everything always
stops at the President’s desk, it is not Obama’s call. 
Presidential clemency is not an option.  Although the President
has said he thinks the death penalty does not do much to
deter crime, he has no legal authority to get involved, no
official right to interrupt a state execution.  When the death
penalty is imposed for a state crime like murder, it is a state
issue and states are sovereign entities.

From an internet article, “... the powers of the office are not
without limits. In the Davis case, even the governor of Georgia,
if he wanted to intervene, doesn’t have the legal authority to
do so. The state Board of Pardons and Paroles could
reconsider, or the Georgia Supreme Court might be able to
consider another appeal, though it’s apparently extremely
unlikely to do so. Those are the options.”  The only options.

I am extremely sorry this act of execution is inexorable and
that all the thousands petitions are going for naught.  For the
moment and this execution, all we can do is mourn, but as a
nation, we have to rethink the penalty of a death sentence and
also what would be appropriate justice for the victims of
atrocious crimes when guilt is not questioned.  When there is
not just doubt, but only a “shadow” of a doubt, such as in the
Davis case, then execution ought not to be applied.  To be
entrenched in a verdict for various reasons when conflicting
evidence has come to light, it is to be obstinate and is a
violation of humanity.

The NAACP may be asking for executive clemency…. I can hear the brains of
Obama and his helpers working fast to figure out what answer would be the best
one for the re-election campaign.