Please help Troy Davis’s family now – let us work together to turn a great, wicked wrong into a glimmer of hope

Readers of this blog will remember that I and many others spent a few weeks a while back focused with increasing horror and dread on the case of Troy Davis, an innocent man on Georgia’s Death Row who, despite all evidence against him crumbling over the course of his incarceration, and an international outcry and [...]

Troy Davis Will Be Murdered 7pm Tomorrow

A million people have signed petitions, from around the USA and around the world. One million people have weighed the evidence, and found it fatally flawed. ONE MILLION. People like the Pope, Archbishop Tutu and President Jimmy Carter have condemned the conviction as unsafe. A host of conservative figures are among those who have advocated [...]

1 week to save an innocent man’s life

Troy Davis is almost certainly innocent on the crime for which he is about to be executed. At the very least, his sentence should be commuted while new evidence is properly examined, because the laws of his state, Georgia, insist that no execution can proceed when there is doubt about the conviction. Read this fine [...]

Are you paying for cluster bombs to kill kids?

Amnesty International need your help to run an ad that will stop the Royal Bank of Scotland – rescued from its own incompetence with public money, of course – from funding companies that make cluster bombs. 98% of cluster bomb victims are civilians – 30% are children. Are you happy that your money is being [...]