Troy Davis case inspired this:
Mournful bells toll a dreadful tone
For one who was killed in vain—
Where doubt pursues, is life so small
It may yet be thrown away?
Silent watchers dare not weep
For the loss of the symbol proud,
Unjustly slain on so little ground,
Yet remember he was yet a man—
With life and strength, his loves, his shames,
More than the worth of the deadly syringe,
Yea, though we deem it just, is it right
To kill one man for the death of another?
Too happy with our feigned ideals of justice,
Too quick to mete out punishment—
Let mankind not forget his power
Is not in death, but life.
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