Delivering 200,000+ Signatures for Troy Davis

by Jonathan Perri · 2011-09-14 10:18:00 UTC
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Despite recanted and conflicting witness testimony, the state of Georgia Department of Corrections plans to executeTroy Davis at 7:00 PM on September 21, 2011.

Kim Davis, Troy's sister, came to Change.org and started a petition asking the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to save her brother's life at a clemency hearing set for September 19 - two days before his scheduled execution. In just a few days, more than 200,000 people joined the campaign, voicing their support for Kim and Troy.

At a press conference taking place tomorrow morning, Amnesty International and the NAACP, two organizations that have been working hard to stop Troy Davis' execution for years, will be adding the signatures collected by Kim's Change.org petition to their own successful petitions and presenting them to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Where: Georgia Board of Paroles and Pardons, 2 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, SE Suite 458, Balcony Level, East Tower, Atlanta, Georgia 30334
When: 10:30 AM tomorrow (Thursday, September 15)

Davis was convicted of killing Savannah, GA police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989 but there is significant doubt the he is guilty of the crime. A majority of the witnessed that testified against him during his trial have since recanted their testimony and other witnesses have said that another man told them he killed Mark MacPhail. There was also no physical evidence linking Davis to the killing. He has spent the last 19 years on Death Row and has exhausted all of his appeals. This is his last chance.

Amnesty International and the NAACP have also organized demonstrations to take place on Friday in Atlanta:

On Friday, more than a thousand people are expected to participate in a 6:00 p.m. march from Atlanta’s Woodruff Park, led by death row exonerees and the national leaders of AIUSA and NAACP.   The march will end at Ebenezer Baptist Church where there will be an evening program of prayer, songs and speakers.  Georgia’s Indigo Girls are expected to performas well as gospel choirs.  The event is one of more than 100 that will take place across the United States and in countries from Peru to Hong Kong as part of Amnesty International’s Global Day of Solidarity for Troy Davis.

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