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PDFRemembering Troy Davis: Questions Remain over Whether Georgia Executed Innocent Man One Year Ago:
One year ago today, the state of Georgia executed Troy Anthony Davis for a crime many believe he did not commit. He was put to death despite major doubts about evidence used to link him to the killing of police officer Mark MacPhail, including the recantation of seven of the nine non-police witnesses at his trial.
Troy Davis One Year Later: Execution Fuels National Movement to Abolish Death Penalty:
BENJAMIN JEALOUS: The good news is that we’re turning the tide there, just as we’re turning the tide on the death penalty. You know, the same group of folks who are speaking here today, we’re all part of a group of people who have abolished it for juveniles in this country. We’ve also abolished the death penalty for the group that the court refers to quite bluntly as the “mentally retarded.” We’ve used the same strategy there that we’re going to use here. We got a majority of states to outlaw those practices, and then we went to the Supreme Court. We said, “Not only is this cruel, but because it’s now only practiced by a minority of states, it is also unusual, and therefore ban it for the entire country.” And they did in both cases. And so, we’re hoping here that if we can get rid of it in California, if we can get rid of it in Ohio, if we can get rid of it in just seven more states beyond that, then we can finally go into the Supreme Court and get rid of it in Georgia and get rid of it in Texas and Mississippi and all these places that, when it comes to their practice of the death penalty, are truly godforsaken.
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