Death Penalty: New Execution Date for Troy Davis

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	Death Penalty New Execution Date for Troy Davis death-penalty on September 3, 2008 at 5:10 PM Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed by the state of Georgia on September 23, even though his serious claims of innocence have never been heard in court. Take action right now to stop this execution! Troy Davis was convicted of murder solely on the basis of witness testimony, and seven of the nine non-police witnesses have since recanted or changed their testimony, several citing police coercion. Others have signed affidavits implicating one of the remaining two witnesses as the actual killer. But due to an increasingly restrictive appeals process, none of this new evidence has ever been heard in court. You can read more about his case here. Please take action right away to stop this injustice. And then forward this action to your friends! We really need to get as many messages as we can to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop this travesty of justice. Thank you! Tags: innocence georgia eyewitness identification troy davis Back to entries Comment on this entry Comments: 1 Debbie Kearns (Homepage) on September 3, 2008 at 9:13 PM Everything is so senseless in Georgia! It's like everyone is channeling Sweeney Todd in wrongfully taking on God's work by deciding that everyone should die, because they think that execution is "the low-cost, flawless, closing, final solution". It's as if Satan has possessed the courts into not sparing the innocent and the guilty alike, denying all sanctity of life itself, and turning all life into a holocaust! Somewhere God is weeping for those with hearts of stone who turn away. Jesus would never kill or execute the innocent and the guilty alike as many seem to believe. And everyone is STILL believing in an eye for an eye! If only the Gregg vs. Georgia law hadn't allowed executions to resume, none of this would have happened. There might still be hope, or otherwise, there will be a lynching for Troy Davis in nearly three weeks! I will continue to pray for you, Troy. God bless you. :( Comment on this entry Registered users may login here Name E-Mail Homepage Security code (as shown above) Enter comment Back to entries				About this blog SEARCH BLOG FEED For all blogs For this blog only Death Penalty Blog Roll Abolish the Death Penalty Asia Death Penalty Blog Capital Defense Weekly Central Pennsylvania Abolitionist For Victims, Against the Death Penalty Journey of Hope Blog Kansas Death Penalty Focus Lonely Abolitionist Mensch/sein Not One More: The VADP Weblog Notre Dame Against State Killing Blog Prevention Not Punishment Ohio Death Penalty Information Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty Sister Helen Prejean's Blog Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing Blog Texas Abolition Blog Texas Moratorium Network Texas Students Against the Death Penalty Walk to Stop Executions (California, Sept. 15-Nov. 30) Tell us about your blog » Brandonswriting executedtoday DePaul Students Against the Death Penalty blog Death Penalty Sites ACLU - Capital Punishment Page Danish Medical Group Against the Death Penalty Death Penalty Information Center Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Human Rights Watch's Death Penalty Campaign Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty People of Faith Against the Death Penalty Death Penalty Focus Recent entries This is Our Last Post! Subscribe to the New Amnesty Blog: Dear Reader,This is our last post to th... Innocence and the death penalty: The recent execution of Gregory Wright in Texas reminds us that p... When Victims and their Familes are Against Capital Punishment: A district attorney in North Caroli... Two stays in 24 hours!: AMAZING NEWS! Both Troy Davis and Bobby Woods were granted stays of execut... Take Action for Gregory Wright: One of the nine inmates on death row in Texas facing execution in ... ARCHIVE January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005