Posted on September 07, 2011 by Benjamin Todd Jealous, President & CEO
We’ve just received terrible news: the State of Georgia has set Troy Davis’s execution date for midnight on September 21, just two weeks from today.
This is our justice system at its very worst, and we are alive to witness it. There is just too much doubt.
Consider the situation: Seven out of nine witnesses have recanted their statements; several more have come forward to identify one of the two remaining witnesses as the actual killer; and, earlier this summer, the judge in his final hearing labeled the case against troy as “not ironclad.” Nonetheless, the