{"id":5871,"date":"2011-09-17T00:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T07:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2011-09-17T00:05:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T07:05:58","slug":"action-alert-stop-a-state-sponsored-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/17\/action-alert-stop-a-state-sponsored-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Alert: Stop a State Sponsored Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The picture for Troy Davis looks very bleak.  Despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence, he is scheduled to be murdered on September 21, in a state where the government us completely controlled by the Party of Death.  Here are the details concerning his case, followed by a ten petitions for you to select and  contact information for Republican Governor Nathan Deal.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"17troy-davis\"In the most recent Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Florida<\/a>, when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked, hypothetically, if a man who chose to carry no medical insurance, then was stricken with a grave illness, should be left to die, cheers of "Yeah!" filled the hall. When, in the prior debate, Governor Rick Perry was asked<\/a> about his enthusiastic use of the death penalty in Texas, the crowd erupted into sustained applause and cheers. The reaction from the audience prompted debate moderator Brian Williams of NBC News to follow up with the question, "What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?"<\/p>\n

That "dynamic" is why challenging the death sentence to be carried out against Troy Davis by the state of Georgia<\/a> on 21 September is so important. Davis has been on Georgia’s death row for close to 20 years, after being convicted of killing off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah. Since his conviction, seven of the nine non-police witnesses have recanted their testimony, alleging police coercion and intimidation in obtaining the testimony<\/strong>. There is no physical evidence linking Davis to the murder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Last March, the US supreme court ruled<\/a> that Davis should receive an evidentiary hearing, to make his case for innocence. Several witnesses have identified one of the remaining witnesses who has not recanted, Sylvester "Redd" Coles, as the shooter. US District Judge William T Moore Jr refused, on a technicality, to allow the testimony of witnesses who claimed that, after Davis had been convicted, Coles admitted to shooting MacPhail<\/strong>. In his August court order, Moore summarised<\/a>, "Mr Davis is not innocent."<\/p>\n

One of the jurors, Brenda Forrest, disagrees. She told CNN in 2009, recalling the trial of Davis<\/a>, "All of the witnesses \u2013 they were able to ID him as the person who actually did it." Since the seven witnesses recanted, she says: "If I knew then what I know now, Troy Davis would not be on death row. The verdict would be not guilty."<\/p>\n

Troy Davis has three major strikes against him. First, he is an African American man. Second, he was charged with killing a white police officer. And third, he is in Georgia\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This is just the beginning of a highly informative article.  I encourage you to click through to read it all.<\/font><\/p>\n

Here are ten different petitions you can use to express your protest against this execution: ACLU<\/a>, Amnesty International<\/a>, Change.org<\/a>, Color of Change<\/a>, International Action Center<\/a>, Ipetitions<\/a>, NAACP<\/a>, Petition Online<\/a>, The Petition Site<\/a>, and Your Black World<\/a>.  I found several more nut they link back to one of these.<\/font><\/p>\n

In addition, I encourage contact the governor\u2019s office yourself:<\/font><\/p>\n

Contact<\/font><\/p>\n

Georgia Governor Nathan Deal<\/font><\/p>\n

Office of the Governor<\/font><\/p>\n

203 State Capitol<\/font><\/p>\n

Atlanta, GA 30334 <\/font><\/p>\n

Fax:(404)657-7332<\/font><\/p>\n

Tel:(404)656-1776 <\/font><\/p>\n

email: georgia.governor@gov.state.ga.us<\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n

web: <\/font>http:\/\/gov.state.ga.us\/contact.shtml<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

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If these Republicans execute Troy, it will be a 21st century lynching.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The picture for Troy Davis looks very bleak.  Despite overwhelming evidence of his innocence, he is scheduled to be murdered on September 21, in a state where the government us completely controlled by the Party of Death.  Here are the details concerning his case, followed by a ten petitions for you to select and  contact […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}