{"id":45764,"date":"2011-09-20T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T22:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=45764"},"modified":"2011-09-21T20:41:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T00:41:02","slug":"innocence-project-troy-davis-last-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/politics\/innocence-project-troy-davis-last-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocence project: Troy Davis’ last hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: Imagine the sadness and horror of knowing it might be one’s last night on Earth, facing execution at the hands of a corrupt criminal ‘justice’ system for a crime you did not commit. Please take action on this petition below. Thank you. –efc <\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Friend,<\/p>\n

Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed tomorrow in Georgia despite strong evidence of his innocence, but there\u2019s still time to stop the execution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We were extremely disappointed to learn this morning that the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles had denied Davis\u2019 clemency request. But the Chatham County District Attorney has the power to stop the execution, and we\u2019re urging him to do so.<\/p>\n

Please join me right now by signing a petition calling on Chatham County District Attorney Larry Chisolm to seek a withdrawal of Davis\u2019 death warrant<\/a>. This could be Troy Davis\u2019 last hope, and your voice will help advance the call for justice.<\/p>\n

Davis was convicted of murdering a police officer in Savannah in 1989 based mainly on questionable eyewitness testimony. Seven of the nine witnesses at Davis\u2019 trial have since recanted, and strong evidence has emerged pointing to another man as the real perpetrator of the murder. Three jurors who sentenced Davis to death now also say they have doubts about his guilt and would not vote for a death sentence if the trial happened today.<\/p>\n

Larry Chisolm, the district attorney in Savannah, where Davis was convicted, has the authority to seek a withdrawal of the death warrant. Executing a man despite significant doubts about his guilt would significantly undermine the credibility of Georgia’s criminal justice system, and Chisolm has the power to stop this injustice from happening.<\/p>\n

Please take 30 seconds to sign the petition calling on Chisolm to stop the execution of Troy Davis<\/strong><\/a>, and share the link tonight with your friends via Email<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thank you for taking action,<\/p>\n

\"maddy<\/p>\n

Maddy deLone
\nExecutive Director
\nThe Innocence Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: Imagine the sadness and horror of knowing it might be one’s last night on Earth, facing execution at the hands of a corrupt criminal ‘justice’ system for a crime you did not commit. Please take action on this petition below. Thank you. –efc Dear Friend, Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed tomorrow … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[762],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}