snipped from the national coalition to abolish the death penalty’s website…
YOU can help stop the execution of Troy Anthony Davis
NEW! Today (9/15/2011), more than 650,000 signatures were delivered to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles (see photo), urging them to stop the execution. Read the news here, take the actions below, and check back regularly for updates.
This compelling new video takes you to the scene of the crime and examines some of the eyewitness evidence used to convict Troy. Features CNN footage, one of Troy’s jurors who now would find him “not guilty,” and one of the original witnesses against Troy. Click here now – it’s seven minutes well worth watching!
Read about and watch the video about artist Chaz Guest, who painted an official portrait of President Obama, as well as the portrait of Thurgood Marshall that hangs in the Oval Office, on why he had to paint and speak out about Troy Davis.
Click Here to sign the Petition.
Click Here to print out and collect signatures on the hardcopy petition.
Click Here to add your name to the religious leader sign-on letter. Please ask members of the clergy whom you know to add their names.
Click Here to add your name to the legal professionals sign-on letter. Please ask attorneys and law professors you know to add their names
Click Here to sign the letter from family members of homicide victims.
Click Here to learn about the “1 million Tweets for Troy!” campaign.
Tweet and Facebook the news, and share the blog entry.
“Like” NCADP’s Troy Davis Facebook Page.
See more information about the case here. See a new video production about the case by clicking here. Click here to read a letter to the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles from death row exonerees representing Witness to Innocence. To read an interview about the case with Amnesty International’s Laura Moye, click here. To read an interview with Troy Davis’ sister Martina Correia about the case on radio talk show host Tom Joyner’s website, Black America Web, click here. For more information about the religious leaders’ sign-on letter for Davis, click here.
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