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 [...]

Jailed for 53 days because your name is Teresa

Could this happen in any other locale in the “civilised world” except somewhere in the south of the United States? I think not. An Atlanta woman says she was mistakenly imprisoned for 53 days because police confused her for someone else with the same first name. Teresa Culpepper says she called police to report that [...]

One dies, one walks free – reflections on Troy Davis versus Amanda Knox

Sunday saw the burial of Troy Davis, the man who millions believed was falsely convicted of murder and who was then, in turn, killed by the State of Georgia despite a massive groundswell of support, including from some of the finest political and legal minds in America and around the world. Today sees the freeing [...]

They said it wouldn’t end when they murdered Troy Davis, and it hasn’t.

Where will it end? Will the outrage simply peter out over time? Or are we seeing the beginning of a mass movement to end the death penalty in America once more? I would very much appreciate your opinions. http://newamericamedia.org/2011/09/troy-davis-protesters-occupy-wall-street.php How sad to see the police in NY reacting with typical brutishness. Has anything changed since [...]

Details emerge of the legal nonsense that allowed the judicial murder of Troy Davis

In the bleak hours since Troy Davis was killed for a crime he did not commit, more facts continue to emerge about the farcical state of the legal processes that condemned him to death. Apart from the fact that courts repeatedly refused to allow new evidence to be submitted on Davis’s behalf – in other [...]

Troy Davis execution temporarily delayed

The Supreme Court is considering the case. No one knows what will happen, although I believe execution is still by far the most likely result. Watch live feed of the protest outside the prison here, especially if you are interested in stopping the death penalty generally, as there are many interesting people being interviewed as [...]

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 [...]

The facts surrounding the planned killing of Troy Davis by the State of Georgia next Wednesday

Many people have asked me for the full details of why Troy Davis should not be executed next week. Rather than express a purely personal view, I think it would be more helpful if people could read the full story from an independent source, in this case the NAACP, who yesterday delivered more than 660,000 [...]

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 [...]

Georgia about to execute a man who is very likely innocent

At the very least, the doubts about his conviction should make imposing the death penalty – planned for just a few short days from now – unthinkable. (By its own rules, Georgia is obliged to set aside the death penalty where reasonable doubt exists.) Please take action. As a first step, read Emily Hauser’s blog. [...]