Two executions are scheduled for today. Racist Lawrence Brewer will be killed in Texas for the savage murder of James Byrd. Troy Davis will be killed for the murder of Mark MacPhail, a police officer in Savannah, Georgia.
MacPhail was an elite Army Ranger who left the service so that his family could have more stability. He was moonlighting as a security guard in 1989 when he attempted to help a homeless man who was being assaulted. Even though he hadn’t drawn a gun, he was shot in the heart and face and died, leaving a wife and young daughter and newborn son.
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