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*(Via ajc.com) – Martina Davis Correia, older sister of Troy Davis, who was executed in September for killing a police officer, died Thursday, according to media reports. Correia, 44, had been fighting cancer. She stood by her brother, who maintained his innocence in the death of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. [...]
*During an interview on CNN, Princeton professor Cornel West and TV host Tavis Smiley blasted GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain for his recent claim that racism is not a big factor in African-American unemployment. West urged him “to get off the symbolic crack pipe.” As reported, Cain said that racism is not a factor in [...]
*The American Spectator says that Georgia’s recent execution of convicted police-killer Troy Davis activated many religious death penalty opponents. But there was significant dissent from the claims that Christianity uniformly opposes capital punishment. The 16 million Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant communion, specifically affirms it. And its most prominent theologian defended it amid the [...]
*Thousands of people packed a church in Savannah, Georgia on Saturday for the funeral of Troy Davis, who was executed for the murder of a police officer in a case that drew world attention because of claims by his advocates that he was innocent. The rousing service at Jonesville Baptist Church in Savannah reflected a [...]
*This time last week, the world was in shock that the United States of America had put to death Troy Davis, a man convicted of killing a Georgia cop in 1989. Troy Davis maintained his innocence the entire time he was on death row, which was 22 years. America maintains a mentality that once convicted—innocence [...]
*Politico.com is reporting that a White House official and a reporter who was in the room today denied a report from an African-American radio host who says Obama told a group of black journalists that he tried to save Troy Davis. As previously reported, the post from Rob Redding Jr. at The Redding News Review [...]
*One of Atlanta’s prominent religious leaders took to the pulpit Sunday and argued that that the battle against the death penalty should not die with last week’s execution of convicted cop killer Troy Davis, says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Rev. Raphael Warnock called on congregants at Ebenezer Baptist Church to live their faith through both [...]
*The editor of ReddingNewsReview.com reports of unnamed sources who say President Obama tried to intervene to stop the Troy Davis execution in Georgia. Robert “Rob” Redding Jr. posted the following story on Monday: President Obama candidly Friday took a little time to explain how he tried to save Troy Davis and why he did not [...]
*The instant the Georgia Pardons and Paroles Board turned thumbs down on clemency for Troy Davis, the quiet murmurs grew to a crescendo in some quarters that President Obama should speak out on the pending Davis execution. Filmmaker Michael Moore went even further and mused that Obama should make like President Eisenhower and take federal [...]
*Those who have spent years supporting Troy Davis and proving his innocence were forced to watch him lose his life for something he did not do. The proof has been submitted time and time again while witnesses recanted their testimonies and one woman even stated that she was threatened by the actual cop killer to not [...]
*On June 7, 1998, most of the nation sat in horror as they saw the country sink back into a time where African Americans were “hunted” on a regular basis. A story came out of Jasper, Tx., revealing the nasty underbelly of America to the world. A lynching had occurred and a black man lost his [...]
*New York, NY – Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network (NAN) and one of the country’s foremost civil rights leaders, will travel to Washington, DC, Friday, September 23 to call upon the U.S. Justice Department to move for federal laws to prevent states from prosecuting capital cases unless scientific or physical evidence is [...]
*Troy Anthony Davis‘ lawyers this morning were turned away by prison officials, who rejected their attempt to allow Davis to take a polygraph test to try and show he is not a cop killer, reports ajc.com. Davis, who has always maintained his innocence, sits on death row for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah Police [...]
*(Atlanta, GA) – Today, the NAACP condemned the Georgia State Board of Paroles and Pardons for its decision to deny clemency to Troy Anthony Davis and to move forward with the execution. NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous has strongly advocated for clemency in this case. “In moments of immense sadness, moments that shake [...]
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EUR Guest Commentary: Europeans and America Outraged About Execution of Troy Davis
*The execution of Troy Davis has sent shockwaves throughout the nation, and has caused worldwide protests in America and Europe. Mr. Davis’ execution is a heartbreaking reminder that injustice, hatred and discrimination prevails, and is spreading like an uncontrollable wildfire that is taking the lives of innocent victims around the world. Internationally renowned author, columnist [...]