Question

Pick any reading and describe a theme or central idea it has in common with the excerpt above. What issue is Powel commenting on, and how has one of the authors, poets, or playwrights in the course addressed this issue in his or her work? Support your comparison with examples from both excerpt and from your chosen reading, You do not have to provide direct quotes.

Answer 1

Troy Davis was not allowed to submit to the lie detector to prove his guilt before being executed, as a last resort to avoid lethal injection. His defenders accused the Court of racial discrimination.

Davis´s attorney, Stephen Marsh, has commented that the Georgia department of corrections rejected the request to take the polygraph test. However, until the last minute Davis, did not recognize himself guilty of the murder of police officer Mark McPhail in 1989.

In spite of the doubts about the sentence, lack of real evidence of Davis´s participation in that murder and numerous social protests, the supreme court of the United States rejected the last request of clemency.

In both cases we can infer, although the country fights in order to defeat the racism, is a currently present problem.