The state of Georgia is scheduled to execute Troy Anthony Davis at 7 p.m. on September 23. Dave Zirin, writing in the Huffington Post:
Jocks 4 Justice (including the great Jim Brown) say: SAVE TROY DAVIS!
Contact the Georgia Parole board to reconsider their decision denying Troy clemency.
Fax: 404-651-8502
PH: 404-657-9350
Email: [email protected] […]HERE ARE UNDISPUTED FACTS:
1 – Troy’s fingerprints didn’t match those found at the crime scene
2 – There was no gun residue on Troy’s fingers – in fact, no physical evidence at all connects Troy to this crime.
3 – So why is Troy on death row? Because of testimony from nine people who said that Troy pulled the trigger. But an astounding SEVEN of these nine people shave ince recanted their testimony in sworn affidavits, with several saying they were pressured to finger Troy by police (Of the two who haven’t come forward, one is said to be the police’s initial suspect, and the other testified that the shooter was left-handed, but Troy is right-handed).
The Board has received 25,000 faxes since Monday, they’ve broken all four fax machines. They’ve received so many emails that their server crashed. A friend reports they moved Troy to Death Watch yesterday. She shares an insider’s view that he has not given up hope.
Cory Doctorow has Amnesty International testimony from Troy and reminds us that:
In March 2008, the Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, joined by two other Justices on the Court, wrote that,:
In this case, nearly every witness who identified Davis as the shooter at trial has now disclaimed his or her ability to do so reliably. Three persons have stated that Sylvester Coles confessed to being the shooter. Two witnesses have stated that Sylvester Coles, contrary to his trial testimony, possessed a handgun immediately after the murder. Another witness has provided a description of the crimes that might indicate that Sylvester Coles was the shooter.
AlterNet asks, will Georgia execute an innocent man?
Davis’ case and its trajectory within the court system are drawing intense scrutiny from afar, especially since the publication last year of a 35-page report [link] and a campaign by Amnesty International that propelled Davis from relative obscurity to a cause backed by celebrities, politicians and religious leaders, including the Pope. In July, the European Union Parliament urged the United States to grant Davis a retrial. Proponents of the death penalty, no less, have rallied against his impending execution. William Sessions, former director of the FBI, cautioned that executing Davis without considering his evidence would be “intolerable.” Even former U.S. Representative and current Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr (R-GA) weighed in. “True conservatives, as much as the most bleeding heart liberals, should be unafraid to look carefully at such cases,” wrote Barr in an August 2007 op-ed for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Troy Davis’ life is at stake; but so is the credibility of our criminal justice system.”
Amnesty International’s Take Action page. Take a moment to stop a miscarriage of justice.