EXECUTION SET FOR 7 PM TODAY.
Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed tomorrow in Georgia for a murder he has always said he didn’t commit. There are serious doubts about the evidence used to convict Davis, and today the Innocence Project is calling on the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to stop the execution so the evidence of Davis’ innocence can be thoroughly reviewed.
Davis has served two decades on Georgia’s death row for the murder of a Savannah police officer in 1989. He was convicted almost exclusively on the basis of unreliable eyewitness identification testimony. Seven of the nine eyewitnesses who testified at his trial have since recanted, and new evidence points to another person as the real perpetrator.
The petition is quick. As in about 20s quick! Please sign it.
link to list of other petitions
link to list of people to contact to stop Troy Davis’s execution
online free faxing websites (up to 2 faxes a day for free):
Call Judge Penny Freesemann at 912 652 7252 to save Troy Davis. She has the power to pull the death warrant. The DA can ask her to rescind the warrant or she could rescind it directly. her email is pfreesemann@chathamcounty.org
also:
TroyDavis rally at the prison in Jackson, GA at 4pm. If you’re in the area, be there on the grounds
The lawsuit makes public for the first time the names of all seven people who had piled into the two vehicles that night, charging that while some were directly responsible for assaulting and killing Mr. Anderson, others were negligent because they acted as lookouts and did not try to help Mr. Anderson.
One of the people yelled “white power” during the attack, and others used a racial slur and bragged about the killing, according to the investigators.
The district attorney for Hinds County, Robert Shuler Smith, has said he will try to implicate other teenagers when he takes the case to a grand jury, expected to happen this month.
The F.B.I. has also gotten involved, with civil rights investigators helping Mr. Smith piece together the case, which was hampered early on by missing evidence and holes in some initial police work.
Mr. Smith has said he intends to prosecute the case as a hate crime, which comes into play during the sentencing phase. If Mr. Dedmon is convicted of capital murder and the prosecutors can prove that the crime was committed because of the victim’s race, the sentence may be doubled. The prosecutors have not decided whether to seek the death penalty for Mr. Dedmon.
The victim’s family has created the James Craig Anderson Foundation for Racial Tolerance, but has not spoken much publicly about Mr. Anderson’s death. In an interview with The New York Times last month, family members described Mr. Anderson as a good country cook, a gifted gardener and always genial. They said he liked his job on the assembly line at the Nissan plant, which he had held for about seven years.
“If you met him, the first thing you were going to see was that grand-piano smile,” said his eldest sister, Barbara Anderson Young, who is one of the plaintiffs.
James Bradfield, Mr. Anderson’s partner of 17 years, is not a plaintiff. Under Mississippi law, same-sex partners have no claim in civil actions like this, Mr. Dees said.
There was no indication that Mr. Anderson’s sexual orientation was a factor in the crime.
The lawsuit makes public for the first time the names of all seven people who had piled into the two vehicles that night, charging that while some were directly responsible for assaulting and killing Mr. Anderson, others were negligent because they acted as lookouts and did not try to help Mr….
I CAN NOT
(Source: The New York Times)
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This is my list of reccommended blogs that highlight various aspects of Africa/African countries
Africa...
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Juss Saying
Diasporic Things:
- The huge brain drain /fuck all of you dark poor people that happened in the islands from 60-79
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Juvenile - Ha
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theobsidiancinnamonster asked: I was reading your post with the title "if you have to say 'we're not all like that"...I was wondering if you could explain it further? I find myself saying that because other races (not just whites, I've gotten it from others) think that all black people are the outspoken, loudmouth, ghetto girls that you see. And I have to tell them "we're not all like that." because I'm trying to say "Don't expect me to act like them, because I won't." ?
A lot of people try to make the comparison of “well you wouldn’t like it if I said _____ about black people,” but that doesn’t hold water....
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wootwoot
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So after the train crashes and I am all broken arms and lacerations, I’m supposed to lift 72 pounds? It’s not impossibly heavy or anything but damn...
