Vol. 75/No. 18      May 9, 2011

Davis was convicted of killing a police officer in Savannah, Georgia, in 1989. Since the 1991 trial, seven of nine witnesses pressured by the police to testify against Davis have retracted or changed their testimony.

Two thousand people signed a clemency petition for Davis April 16-18 in Savannah. A common response of signers was “They haven’t let him out yet? Where do I sign?”

Like other inmates Davis has been subjected to arbitrary treatment. After prison authorities claimed they found a cellphone in Davis’s cell while he wasn’t there, Davis was placed “in segregation” for 30 days. His phone privileges were suspended and he was barred from any contact visits for a year.

Last December a delegation of representatives from the Georgia NAACP, Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, the Southern Center for Human Rights, and family members of death row prisoners visited the Georgia Department of Corrections, securing a promise to restore some contact visits for death row inmates, according to Martina Correia, Troy Davis’s sister.

Those interested in building support for the clemency campaign can find information at several websites, including troyanthonydavis.org, amnestyusa.org, naacp.org, and gfadp.org.
 
 
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