The execution of a Georgia man who is probably innocent might be delayed or stopped by shaming the private medical contractor who oversees lethal injections at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison in Jackson, Georgia.
Here in Georgia, we've got an execution scheduled for tonight at 7:00 pm at the Georgia Diagnostic Prison. The guy they're fixing to kill is Troy Davis, convicted of killing a Savannah police officer, Mark McPhail, in 1989. Now, regardless of where you stand on the death penalty, this should piss you off: seven of nine witnesses against Troy at his capital trial have recanted and said they were pressured by police to claim they saw Troy kill McPhail. One of the two remaining non-recanting witnesses is Red Coles, the man who almost certainly is the real perp. The other witness initially told police he did not see who had shot the officer, but his mind cleared up by the time of trial, if you know what I mean. The recanting witnesses were not given a chance to testify in court about all this, but they did trek all the way to Atlanta from Savannah to give live testimony about how they came to give false testimony at Troy's trial. They risked perjury prosecutions to do so, I might add.
Anyway, despite this, Troy's not getting any love in the courts or, shockingly, even the Board of Pardons and Paroles, who pledge publicly they will commute any death sentence where there is "any doubt" about the guilt of the prisoner. No matter where you stand on this issue, this execution is some shameful shit. Why wouldn't you want to commute (not pardon!) a guy like this, just to make sure we don't kill the wrong man?
Well, this execution can't happen unless Dr. Carlo Musso and doctors and nurses associated with Musso's two enterprises, "Rainbow Medical Associates" and "Correct Health," are present at the execution. By law, two doctors must be present at Georgia lethal injections. They are prepared to step in if there is a mishap, and to call the time of death. After state-employed doctors balked at even this level of participation in an execution, the DOC scrambled to find private docs to take over. They found bottom-feeder Musso and his low-life band of hack physicians. Musso has since contracted with DOC for execution services as both Rainbow Medical Associates and CorrectHealth.
Here's an article about Musso and "Rainbow Medical."
This is the website for Correct Health.
Just thought you might like to know that information in case you might like to, say, write a letter or an email or send a fax reminding these folks that the Hippocratic Oath mandates that health care providers "do no harm." If this firm is publicly shamed over its execution services, especially in a case of probable innocence, they might just find it in their interest to drop the contract, maybe even as early as tonight! Kossacks, you can monkeywrench this one!