So, OU is staying. Now we HAVE to add teams, correct?

[SoonerBounce13]

I think that would be great for SMU... maybe after being in a big conference they would recruit better and recover from the death penalty. I use that term lightly today (death penalty), given that Georgia may have lynched an innocent man last night.

SMU, TCU, Houston.

Interesting.

We will nto add three texas school. especially smu and houston

 

[NorthCarolinaSooner]

I think that would be great for SMU... maybe after being in a big conference they would recruit better and recover from the death penalty. I use that term lightly today (death penalty), given that Georgia may have lynched an innocent man last night.

SMU, TCU, Houston.

Interesting.

It would be big for SMU. . . but they bring nothing to the Big XII . . . As far as the death penalty you may be correct. . . . Orrrr they may have executed a man who shot a police officer three times, including once at point blank range, in the face. I guess the only one who knows the true answer is the guy who pulled the trigger.

 

[boksooner]

It would be big for SMU. . . but they bring nothing to the Big XII . . . As far as the death penalty you may be correct. . . . Orrrr they may have executed a man who shot a police officer three times, including once at point blank range, in the face. I guess the only one who knows the true answer is the guy who pulled the trigger.

Shouldn't you know that answer before you put a guy to death? If there is any doubt, shouldn't you give it a few more days? Seems like the death penalty is one of those things you should be pretty sure about.

PS. I agree about SMU. Adds absolutely nothing to the Big XII.

 

[campbest]

It would be big for SMU. . . but they bring nothing to the Big XII . . . As far as the death penalty you may be correct. . . . Orrrr they may have executed a man who shot a police officer three times, including once at point blank range, in the face. I guess the only one who knows the true answer is the guy who pulled the trigger.

Please delete this post, this doesn't belong here.

 

[WTSooner]

Shouldn't you know that answer before you put a guy to death? If there is any doubt, shouldn't you give it a few more days?

For what? He has been appealing since sometime in 2007. He has been scheduled to die 3-4 different times. Everybody up to the federal courts has looked over his case, and has decided not to overturn anything.

Just b/c some protestors and news outlets have jumped on this story and given one-sided facts, doesn't mean he isn't guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

 

[thebigabd]

For what? He has been appealing since sometime in 2007. He has been scheduled to die 3-4 different times. Everybody up to the federal courts has looked over his case, and has decided not to overturn anything.

Just b/c some protestors and news outlets have jumped on this story and given one-sided facts, doesn't mean he isn't guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

7 out of 9 witnesses recanted their testimony, said they did so out of fear of the police.

Reasonable doubt, anyone?

Now a man who could very well be innocent is dead, and spent from 1989 till last night in prison.

 

[WTSooner]

7 out of 9 witnesses recanted their testimony, said they did so out of fear of the police.

Reasonable doubt, anyone?

Now a man who could very well be innocent is dead, and spent from 1989 till last night in prison.

Common sense.....

Those 7 witnesses didn't say he wasn't guilty, they just changed their story to say they didn't KNOW he was guilty. Doesn't prove innocence. Still leaves a few witnesses that did finger him. And who is to say their recanted statements aren't the ones that are false?

It was his gun that killed the officer, and there was blood found on his clothes, though that wasn't ever presented in court. He did it. Or at the VERY least, he was standing next to his buddy that did it. Either way, I have no problem with a death sentence. And neither does the officer's family. Nor the state of Georgia. Nor the federal courts.

 

[WTSooner]

And your comment about him being "lynched" is tacky. They system played out. He was judged by his peers, and found guilty. It was appealed and upheld. The federal courts reviewed it and it held up.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

7 out of 9 witnesses recanted their testimony, said they did so out of fear of the police.

Reasonable doubt, anyone?

Now a man who could very well be innocent is dead, and spent from 1989 till last night in prison.

I actually read there were 34 witnesses and 9 of them changed their story

 

[Tony]

Uhhh....

 

[bocabull]

7 out of 9 witnesses recanted their testimony, said they did so out of fear of the police.

Reasonable doubt, anyone?

Now a man who could very well be innocent is dead, and spent from 1989 till last night in prison.

I think people around here know I'm a liberal. I'm also against the death penalty because we don't live in the stone ages.

Having said that ... The supreme court took the unheard of step of ordering an evidentiary hearing to be held in a federal court in Georgia to look over the issues raised post trial by the defense. The federal judge who held this hearing said this in his ruling in 2010 -

"Ultimately, while Mr. Davis's new evidence casts some additional, minimal doubt on his conviction, it is largely smoke and mirrors," he ruled. "The vast majority of the evidence at trial remains intact, and the new evidence is largely not credible or lacking in probative value."

In addition, these so called 7 of 9 eye witnesses who recanted would not appear at this evidentiary hearing to be cross examined. We keep hearing this line over and over about the 7 of 9 who recanted. Where are they? Why aren't they being interviewed in every media outlet telling their story unfettered?

Because they would come off worse than Sarah Palin in a Katie Couric interview.

 

[Sam]

How does conference expansion turn into this pissing content?

Seriously this thread is over.