Davis on Death Row

The Travis County jury was deliberating whether Selwyn P. Davis should receive a death sentence for killing his ex-girlfriend's mother asked this afternoon for a court reporter to read back testimony about Davis' incarceration in the county jail. In some jurisdictions, murder is a common law crime, considered so wrong that there is no need for any legislation to define it. In such jurisdictions precedent (case law or previous decisions of the Courts of Law), define what is considered murder. Since Davis’s father shot and killed his mother, Davis then suffered some major problems as a child, some saying he had a “Mental problem.” Most countries allow conditions that "affect the balance of the mind" to be regarded as mitigating circumstances. This means that a person may be found guilty of "manslaughter" on the basis of "diminished responsibility" rather than murder, if it can be proved that the killer was suffering from a condition that affected their judgment at the time. Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and medication side-effects are examples of conditions that may be taken into account when assessing responsibility.

Life imprisonments without the possibility of parole or death row are the penalties for committing a murder. By giving murderers the death sentence the government is trying to accomplish at getting the message across that if you kill somebody chances are you’re not going to get off.

After taking all of Davis’s past history into consideration, they sentenced him to death row, instead of life in prison.

I personally feel that the jury made the best decision.