Troy Davis is dead.
“Justice,” said Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens, “has been served for Officer Mark MacPhail and his family.”
And yet, the subconscious emerges: Joan MacPhail-Harris said, “I will grieve for the Davis family because now they’re going to understand our pain and our hurt.”
That is, does she grieve because the Davis family, too, will know the hurt of unjust death? Somebody, please, remind them to thank the widow for that.
Perhaps Troy Davis really is guilty, but it doesn’t matter now. His execution reminds that this really wasn’t about justice, but, rather, blood.
B.D.'s Last Refuge 