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UPDATED - Troy Davis Denied Clemency - Execution Set for September 23
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by duo | September 15, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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The Georgia Pardon and Parole Board declined to issue a stay of execution for condemned man, Troy Davis, following its clemency hearing on September 12. Amnesty International published a statement today that Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed on September 23.
Mr. Davis issued an audio statement you can hear at the link below:
http://terryhowcott.com/greenspace.asp?id=991
Davis was sentenced to death in 1992 for the murder of Police Officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. According to Amnesty International, the case against him consisted only of witness testimony that contained inconsistencies, even at trial. Since then, all but two of the state’s nine witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony. Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced into testifying or signing statements. Mr. Davis has never been allowed to present the witness testimony in court and other evidence that surfaced since his conviction due to restraints on the number of appeals allowed.
Is this a case of "We know you may be innocent, but we are going to kill you anyway, because your evidence was slow in arriving"?
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WGCL TV Atlanta
http://www.cbs46.com/news/17455735/detail.html
The board did not give a reason for its decision to deny Davis clemency.
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See more about Mr. Davis' case at the below links:
Finality Over Fairness - The Case of Troy Davis
by Amnesty International
Finality Over Fairness - The Case of Troy Davis
Website: Troy Davis Website
Legal Process: Legal Process
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/georgia-execution-september-23-troy-anthony-davis-possibly-innocent
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UPDATES
Several more articles are available on NowPublic in the Troy Davis series. For the latest information published by this writer, please see (UPDATES section at the bottom): http://my.nowpublic.com/culture/troy-anthony-davis-granted-last-minute-stay-execution-u-s-supreme-court
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Mary Neal
Website: http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
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at 13:13 on September 15th, 2008
duo, I think your story has potential but needs some improvement. I've got a few suggestions, and if you give them a try, I'd be happy to remove this flag. This appears to be a duplicate story. Duplicate stories are not good for search engine indexing. Also, the headline issue (addressed in a separate message) could be changed for better engine recognition.
at 13:36 on September 15th, 2008
Tina, this is no duplicate story, as far as I can see doing a NowPublic search. The notice from Amnesty International was just released today. Please supply the link for the duplicate. Thank you.
at 13:49 on September 15th, 2008
duo, thanks for improving your story -- I can see you've put more effort into it. I've removed the flag and now more readers can see it. Thanks for your contribution.
at 15:08 on September 15th, 2008
Tina, I put the headline in lower case letters, as you suggested. Are you saying this story was blacked out from view until you removed flag because the headline was in caps?
at 15:16 on September 15th, 2008
I removed the flag within minutes of your correction.
at 16:31 on September 19th, 2008
Website for Governor Sonny Perdue
State of Georgia <http://gov.georgia.gov/00/gov/contact_us/0,2657,78006749_94820188,00.html Dear Governor Perdue:
I am writing on behalf of justice for Troy Davis. I also want to thank you for all that you do for Georgia to help this stay a great state. Georgia has a very rich heritage, and it attracts people and corporations from all over the globe. Please don't allow our state to be marred with any accusations of Jim Crowe-type injustices while under your administration.
Sir, I am sure I do not have to recount for you the history of Mr. Davis' case and the facts that would make his execution without a new trial an atrocious act of injustice. Georgia does not need this. We do not need the international community and corporate enterprises from all over this nation to look at Georgia as being a backward, prejudice state, more interested in killing another black man than in upholding justice and the standards of America, where each citizen has been avowed with the inalienable right to life.
However citizens can forfeit their right to life by doing heinous crimes, such as Mr. Davis is accused of committing. But did he do it? Please do not allow his execution to proceed until that question can be answered with resounding confidence, Governor Perdue. To proceed with the execution while these questions of innocence remain would allow a horrible taint on our marvelous home, Georgia.
Blessings,
Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com
at 16:35 on September 19th, 2008
NOTICE: This article has been updated with a link to a live audio broadcast by condemned man, Troy Anthony Davis, who has not been proven guilty of the crime for which he will die on Tuesday.
at 13:20 on October 14th, 2008
This message was posted under the picture to another Troy Davis article. I am posting here to give higher visibility to the message:
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at 06:26 on October 14th, 2008 new WILL PRO LIFE US SUPREME COURT JUDGES ALLOW AN EXECUTION OF A POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN ???lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com USA, WHERE JUDICIAL INJUSTICES BEING INFLICTED ON POORER AMERICANS NEEDS CHANGE !!!
SENATOR OBAMA PLEASE LET THE AMERICAN VOTERS KNOW YOUR FEELINGS AND THOUGHTS ABOUT AMERICA’S FUTURE REPAIR AND RENOVATION OF A BROKEN JUDICIAL SYSTEM THAT CONTINUES TO ALLOW THE EXECUTION OF EVEN POSSIBLE INNOCENT AMERICAN’S LIKE TROY DAVIS OF GEORGIA ?????
BEING THE WEALTHIEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SENATOR OBAMA, DON'T WE NEED AS THE LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD TO BEGIN ONCE AGAIN TO RE-INVEST THE PROPER MONIE$ IN OUR OWN US JUDICIAL SYSTEM, ASSURING ALL OF OUR CITIZENS THEIR RIGHTS TO FAIR TRIALS WITH PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION ??SADLY SENATOR OBAMA,ANOTHER POSSIBLE innocent poorer black american ALSO NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT FOR JUSTICE AND REASON ??? DOES GOD NEED TO LOBBY OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD ON BEHALF OF OUR poorer american’s SENATOR OBAMA,OR ARE YOU WATCHING OUT FOR THEM ??
***SURELY OUR US CONGRESS & US SUPREME COURT BOTH KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A STATE MURDER OF troy davis IN GEORGIA, OR A POSSIBLE EXECUTION OF troy davis IN GEORGIA ???
OUR US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD CONTINUE TO DENY MIDDLE CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION EVEN THOUGH WRONGFUL EXECUTIONS & FALSE INCARCERATIONS CONTINUE ALL ACROSS AMERICA ???
*** 700 BILLION $$$ AVAILABLE FOR US BAILOUT, & NO $$$ FOR ALL POORER AMERICANS PROPER LEGAL REPRESENTATION ???????
WHERE ARE AMERICA ‘S RELIGIOUS LEADERS ??????????
SENATOR OBAMA, THIS JUDICIAL INJUSTICE HAS BECOME AN AMERICAN ART FORM, AND NO LONGER CAN BE KEPT HIDDEN OR SECRET FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE EVEN IF CERTAIN (501c3) U$ RELIGIOU$ LEADER$ HAVE BEEN $ILENCED ?
LETS ALL HOPE OUR MEDIA FRIENDS CONTINUE TO SHOW AN INTEREST IN REPORTING ON THIS AMERICAN HORROR FACING THESE (TENS OF THOUSANDS) FORGOTTEN AND TRAPPED POORER AMERICANS, AND HOW THIS PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER HANDLES THIS VERY SERIOUS ISSUE FACING AMERICA’S LATINO AND BLACK AMERICAN COMMUNITIES ?
WITH 80% OF THE BLACK AMERICAN VOTERS SAYING THEY SUPPORT SENATOR OBAMA IN THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, IT IS ONLY FAIR FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW PRIOR BEING ELECTED OUR NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HOW THIS DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TRULY FEELS ABOUT THIS AMERICAN JUDICIAL INJUSTICE CONTINUING TO INFLICT GRAVE HARM ON THE BLACK & LATINO AMERICAN FAMILIES AND THEIR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE ?
*** WHEN GOD’S FACE BECAME VERY RED *** THE US SUPREME COURT GAVE ENEMY COMBATANTS FEDERAL APPEAL HC RIGHTS LAWYERS AND PROPER ACCESS TO US FEDERAL COURTS,AND POORER AMERICANS (MANY EVEN ON DEATH ROW) ARE DENIED PROPER FEDERAL APPEAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION TO OUR US FEDERAL COURTS OF APPEAL, AND ROTTING IN AMERICAN PRISONS NATIONWIDE ?????????
**** INNOCENT AMERICANS ARE DENIED REAL HC RIGHTS WITH THEIR FEDERAL APPEALS ! THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE $LOWLY FINDING OUT HOW EA$Y IT I$ FOR MIDDLE CLA$$ AND WORKING POOR AMERICAN$ TO FALL VICTIM TO OUR U$ MONETARY JUDICIAL $Y$TEM.
****WHEN THE US INNOCENT WERE ABANDONED BY THE GUILTY **** The prison experts have reported that there are 100,000 innocent Americans currently being falsely imprisoned along with the 2,300,000 total US prison population nationwide.
Since our US Congress has never afforded poor prison inmates federal appeal legal counsel for their federal retrials,they have effectively closed the doors on these tens of thousands of innocent citizens ever being capable of possibly exonerating themselves to regain their freedom through being granted new retrials.
This same exact unjust situation was happening in our Southern States when poor and mostly uneducated Black Americans were being falsely imprisoned for endless decades without the needed educational skills to properly submit their own written federal trial appeals.
This devious and deceptive judicial process of making our poor and innocent prison inmates formulate and write their own federal appeal legal cases for possible retrials on their state criminal cases,is still in effect today even though everyone in our US judicial system knows that without proper legal representation, these tens of thousands of innocent prison inmates will be denied their rightful opportunities of ever being granted new trials from our federal appeal judges !!
Sadly, the true US *legal* Federal Appeal situation that occurs when any of our uneducated American prison inmates are forced to attempt to submit their own written Federal Appeals (from our prisons nationwide) without the assistance of proper legal counsel, is that they all are in reality being denied their legitimate rights for Habeas Corpus with our US FEDERAL COURTS and will win any future Supreme Court Case concerning this injustice !
For our judicial system and our US Congressional Leaders Of The Free World to continue to pretend that this is a real and fair opportunity for our American Middle Class and Working Poor Citizens, only delays the very needed future change of Federal Financing of all these Federal appeals becoming a normal formula of Our American judicial system.
It was not so very long ago that Public Defenders became a Reality in this country.Prior that legal reality taking place, their were also some who thought giving anyone charged with a crime a free lawyer was a waste of taxpayer$$.
This FACADE and HORROR of our Federal Appeal proce$$ is not worthy of the Greatest Country In The World! ***GREAT SOCIETIES THAT DO NOT PROTECT EVEN THEIR INNOCENT, BECOME THE GUILTY !
A MUST READ ABOUT AMERICAN INJUSTICE:
1) YAHOO 2) GOOGLE MANNY GONZALES THE KID THAT EVERYONE FORGOT IN THE CA PRISON SYSTEM.
** A JUDICIAL RIDE OF ONES LIFE !
lawyersforpooramericans@yahoo.com (424-247-2013)