Is there really finality in death? A day after Troy Davis was executed via lethal injection, the controversy surrounding his death continues. Can death really give both defendant and accused and all concerned parties the closure they need?

Hardly, it seems.

Aside from the question of Davis' guilt, the more important issue is, is capital punishment the just answer to the crime?

Davis's 22-year case raised issues of racism and the bibilical adage respecting life.

The system is also pitted even against itself after a study by the Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes the capital punishment, showed that jurors have shown reluctance to vote the death penalty.

A 2010 poll by Gallup showed that U.S. public support for the death penalty has declined to 64 percent last year from 84 percent in 1994. The decrease was partly due to the exonerations based on DNA evidence.

The same group of respondents, when asked if they would settle for life imprisonment without parole as substitute to the death penalty, gave mixed responses. About 46 percent opted for life imprisonment while 49 percent maintained capital punishment should be carried out.

Davis was the 1,269th person to be executed in the U.S. since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on the practice in 1976.

But beyond the grave, calls for justice continue to be chanted by his supporters no longer for his innocence but for the foldup of a flawed system.