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Troy Anthony Davis, who is on Georgia's death row, could soon face a fourth execution date. Yet no jury has ever heard the compelling new evidence that can prove his innocence. We call upon you, our elected officials, to investigate this case.

Troy Davis has been on death row in Georgia for the past 17 years, convicted of killing a white police officer, Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. But no physical evidence linked him to the crime and no murder weapon was ever found. Troy was convicted on the basis of nine witnesses who testified against him at his trial. But now seven of these nine have come forward in sworn affidavits to recant their statements. Many say they felt pressured and coerced by the police to name Troy.

Shamefully our court system has never allowed Troy to present this new evidence to a jury. Troy Davis has faced down three past execution dates, once coming within two hours of his execution. Any day now the state of Georgia could be issuing another execution date. We cannot stand by and see justice trampled.

A man's life hangs in the balance. Civil rights hang in the balance. Justice hangs in the balance.
President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, District Attorney of Chatham County Larry Chisolm: You have the power to right this injustice. We, the signers below, urge you to do so.

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# 1,524:

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# 1,523:

6:38 pm PST, Nov 10, Erica M, New Jersey

# 1,522:

2:53 pm PST, Nov 10, Elizabeth Bell, Georgia
To the men and women who have the power to stop the murder of Troy A Davis, I beg you to PLEASE overturn his conviction and grant him a new trial. Where is the justice in killing the wrong man? PLEASE listen to the facts!

# 1,521:

8:11 am PST, Nov 10, Lisa Rosenblum, New Jersey

# 1,520:

1:55 pm PST, Nov 9, Lani Allers, South Africa
Only One may judge! The death penalty is murder!

# 1,519:

12:35 pm PST, Nov 6, Chris Eves, Illinois

# 1,518:

9:32 pm PST, Nov 5, Kaleena Edelin, Maryland

# 1,517:

10:15 am PST, Nov 5, Celia Alexander, Tennessee

# 1,516:

9:10 am PST, Nov 5, Mariann Begliutti, Tennessee

# 1,515:

9:59 am PST, Nov 3, Holger Reuchlin, Germany
Death penalty is an unhuman, unchristian and cruel act. Stop death penalty and do not execute a probably innocent man.

# 1,514:

9:34 pm PST, Nov 2, Sharon Bennett Bohnenberger, Tennessee
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King, Jr.

# 1,513:

2:18 pm PST, Nov 1, Miles Halpine, Connecticut
This is unfair and unjust, Free Troy A. Davis!!

# 1,512:

10:23 pm PDT, Oct 30, Jacob Hillstrom, Virginia
would you rather have justice or mercy? jesus is mercy and forgiveness. if you prefer justice be prepared to pay on judgement day for every bit of pain and suffering you have caused to any life form during your entire life. two wrongs do not make a right. have you thought of the family of someone on death row? are you willing to put them through that? what if it was you? society will never overcome if we keep up this atrocity. destroying a family for destroying another family. theres a better way! god bless you.

# 1,511:

3:21 pm PDT, Oct 29, Catherine Salazar, Indiana

# 1,510:

8:38 pm PDT, Oct 27, Brian Turner, Alabama

# 1,509:

8:17 pm PDT, Oct 27, Guillermo Martinez, California
I believe the death penalty should become obsolete in American. Reason for my belief is that there should be a humanitarian way about punishing those accuse of capital crimes in the USA.

# 1,508:

4:19 pm PDT, Oct 20, James Carlsen, Alabama

# 1,507:

8:23 am PDT, Oct 20, Nastaran Nazifi, Florida

# 1,506:

3:35 pm PDT, Oct 19, Stephen Rutherford, Texas

# 1,505:

9:54 am PDT, Oct 19, SELEA J. MCCLAIN, Tennessee

# 1,504:

11:23 am PDT, Oct 18, Thomas William Hillman, United Kingdom
Stop all executions. Start with Troy.

# 1,503:

11:20 am PDT, Oct 18, Anna-Marie Moorhouse, United Kingdom

# 1,502:

8:05 pm PDT, Oct 17, Chris Davis, West Virginia

# 1,501:

11:21 am PDT, Oct 16, Kayla Lutz, Washington

# 1,500:

9:41 am PDT, Oct 16, Loftin Thompson, Tennessee

# 1,499:

5:50 pm PDT, Oct 15, Alexander Krokus, Oregon
There must be a fair trial for Troy Davis, and we also need to a government mandate that eliminates the death penalty entirely from all State jurisdiction. Peace. Alexander Krokus

# 1,498:

2:58 pm PDT, Oct 15, Joshua Hilbert, North Carolina

# 1,497:

8:45 am PDT, Oct 14, Fige Bornu, Michigan
Stop all death row executives and start right now with Troy Davis.

# 1,496:

4:28 am PDT, Oct 13, Angela Grobben, Switzerland

# 1,495:

3:30 pm PDT, Oct 12, Nancy B Mikelsons, Illinois

# 1,494:

9:54 am PDT, Oct 9, Adam Freedman, Georgia

# 1,493:

12:32 pm PDT, Oct 8, Francisco Anta Fernández, Spain

# 1,492:

9:06 pm PDT, Oct 6, Pastor Denise, California

# 1,491:

11:02 pm PDT, Oct 4, Bryan Subbert, Florida

# 1,490:

11:00 am PDT, Sep 30, Jon Kielty, Massachusetts

# 1,489:

7:22 am PDT, Sep 30, Ella Berrian, Georgia

# 1,488:

6:23 am PDT, Sep 30, Daisy Tanner, United Kingdom
wooh (:

# 1,487:

8:07 am PDT, Sep 28, Priscilla Delaney, Pennsylvania

# 1,486:

6:09 pm PDT, Sep 27, Anthony Bates, Nevada
I Believe this man to be innocent. If the State Of Geogia put this man to death and later it is found out that he committed no crimes, the police, prosecuters and anyone else involved in the lies that put this man on death row Should meet the same fate.

# 1,485:

12:57 pm PDT, Sep 27, Jeffrey Justin Van Dunk, New York

# 1,484:

12:47 pm PDT, Sep 27, Jana Zajicova, Czech Republic
What has happened? Just it´s not so long ago when you, mean US were teaching all the world about human rights. What´s a pity you had forgotten it...

# 1,483:

11:40 am PDT, Sep 27, Claudia Ioannidou, Cyprus

# 1,482:

2:48 pm PDT, Sep 25, David Paul Xavier Burch, Indiana

# 1,481:

10:21 am PDT, Sep 25, William Peterson, Oregon
I am opposed to the death penalty for the following reasons: The death penalty is the most violent form of punishment, thus promoting violence as a solution to social problems. It is impossible to establish safeguards that will insure for all time that an innocent person will never be executed. People are now sentenced to death in cases where society must bear some of the responsibility for the action of the individual. Examples are where the person as a child was repeatedly brutalized and/or sexually molested, where there is severe mental retardation or aberration, or where the person is a minor. Even the execution process itself causes social trauma and divisiveness that far outweigh any possible benefit.

# 1,480:

2:21 pm PDT, Sep 23, Bradley Hamilton, Arizona
It is time for our society, if we truly are a civilized nation, to end the policies of racial inhumanity, intolerance and injustice. Ending the death penalty would be a good start.

# 1,479:

5:38 am PDT, Sep 22, Robin Schreier, New Jersey
No one is free, or safe from tyranny, if the government can execute an innocent man. Allow real justice to work for Troy.

# 1,478:

6:04 pm PDT, Sep 21, Angie Lotto, Pennsylvania

# 1,477:

7:30 am PDT, Sep 21, Mary Smale, United Kingdom
Life is precious and sacred and no human has the right to take life or make a law that takes away life. All laws were originally thoughts or ideas of fairness by wise people in communities that considered justice using the head and the heart.With empathy we can make better laws that punish bad behaviour without putting our name to murder - that is what sentencing someone to death is and does this not lower the law makers to the same place as the murderer works from - lacking in morals and ethics.

# 1,476:

12:13 pm PDT, Sep 17, LaTisha North, Georgia
My name is Tisha. Troy Davis is innocent because they really didn'y have any physical evidence. They only had the testimony of a juvenile, marine officer, an illiterate man,the suspect himself and a parole women who all stated that they were coerced and pressure by the police. The other suspect and Troy Davis had many characteristics. I called this type of evidence hearsay because most of these people was not even at the scene of the crime. If the murder weapon was not founded then what evidence do they really have? Troy Davis is innocent and I think they should free him into society. On the night of the event, Sylvester Coles was telling people that he shot him and a man named Troy is paying for it (Research). When the court hears his case, the recantation probably don't get heard in court because of the 1996 law which states that he should have got the recantations during the state trial process not in the federal. If they don't be hear in court then Troy could be executed in October, November, or even December. Troy have been on death row for more than 18 years and where is the justice? Why do I person who kills a peace officer gets the death penalty, but if they kill another human being it is only life? Don't get me wrong, Brian Nicholas got 485 years plus life without the possibility of parole.

# 1,475:

6:05 am PDT, Sep 16, Dominique Mutch, Australia
We will not stop fighting. An injustice has been done, and needs to be fixed. We stand before the legal system ashamed! God bless Troy

# 1,474:

9:27 am PDT, Sep 14, Yvonne Brandhorst Jan�en, Germany

# 1,473:

7:30 am PDT, Sep 14, SHAWNTEL ROWELL, Iowa
i think that troy should be release and given money because 7 of the 9 witnesses say that they were pressuresd into picking troy as ther shotter. FREE TROY FREETROY

# 1,472:

11:41 am PDT, Sep 12, Claire Smith, United Kingdom

# 1,471:

7:43 pm PDT, Sep 10, Patricia Lewis, Georgia
We will not sit idle and allow the justice system to fail us.

# 1,470:

4:25 pm PDT, Sep 10, Name not displayed, Florida
This is not the way to punish those who have committed a crime. Our system is trying to correct the wrong by doing a wrong

# 1,469:

2:58 pm PDT, Sep 8, Andrea Symonds, Rhode Island
I am not a lawyer but, if 7 of 9 witnesses confess to being coerced by police officers to testify against an alleged criminal...Something is obviously wrong. What do you gain by keeping this man in prison? He isn't campaining to MAKE a mockery of Georgia's Judicial System, his 17 years imprisonment does that already. He is asking for a NEW trial, a FAIR trial. He wants to get on with his life.

# 1,468:

2:54 pm PDT, Sep 8, Gerard Garay, Illinois

# 1,467:

2:43 pm PDT, Sep 7, Sidney Clement Jr., Louisiana
I think that a fair and adequate trial should allow for the presentation of all compelling evidents pretaning to a case. Thank You. Sidney Clement Jr.

# 1,466:

12:02 pm PDT, Sep 6, Name not displayed, New Hampshire
With so many verdicts overturned, either based on new evidence or on technology catching up with old evidence, the death penalty should be abolished. Each of those verdicts were once rendered "beyond a reasonable doubt." "Beyond a reasonable doubt" is an insufficient standard for ending a life.

# 1,465:

9:20 pm PDT, Sep 5, Name not displayed, Texas

# 1,464:

3:32 pm PDT, Sep 5, Donna Zuk Adley, Connecticut

# 1,463:

10:18 pm PDT, Sep 4, Name not displayed, New Hampshire

# 1,462:

12:28 pm PDT, Sep 4, Mac-Z Zurawski, Illinois
This is a typical case of a miscarriage of justice due to the lack of substantial evidence, the arbitrary manner in which the death penalty was decided and lack of defendants lawyers skills. I hope this case will open the door for all death penalty cases to be re-examined.

# 1,461:

6:26 am PDT, Sep 3, Florence Harvey, United Kingdom

# 1,460:

9:48 pm PDT, Sep 2, Name not displayed, Florida

# 1,459:

11:21 am PDT, Sep 2, Duilio Donfrancesco, Italy

# 1,458:

7:44 am PDT, Sep 2, Christopher Vidal, Greece
Using the death penalty the state is trying to correct what is wrong by doing the same wrong.

# 1,457:

6:18 am PDT, Sep 2, Heather Hicks, Texas
I can't imagine what it would be like to be sitting on death row, staring the end of my life in the face, knowing I was innocent. Just one death of an innocent person is enough reason to stop the death penalty. And everyone knows that this wouldn't be the first innocent to be executed. How does it help anybody to kill people. An eye for an eye doesn't really making anything better or help heal wounds. Please stop this execution! Please at least look at the evidence that this poor man is innocent! We are the only superpower left in the world and we still do such barbaric things to our own people. It's a disgrace to the United States as a whole!

# 1,456:

3:34 pm PDT, Sep 1, Darshini Walton, Arizona

# 1,455:

12:51 pm PDT, Sep 1, Peter Athans, Illinois
The death penalty is ALWAYS morally wrong but in this case it is also a miscarriage of justice. Give him a new trial!

# 1,454:

8:39 pm PDT, Aug 31, Name not displayed, Georgia
he deserve to be free, he dont belongs to death row after all.

# 1,453:

2:28 pm PDT, Aug 31, Ami Shouldyn, Israel
Were all on death roll... so +1 if u'd like...

# 1,452:

12:23 pm PDT, Aug 28, Ty Queen, Maryland
It blows my mind that we continue to exist in a time where you are proven guilty until you can be proved innocent. Then folks wonder why Americans lose their patriotism. I pray for his life to be spared and that the many more Troy Davis's can have hope that there justice will too someday come. Peace.

# 1,451:

7:35 am PDT, Aug 28, Name not displayed, Alabama
The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment not only for the inmate, but for his loved ones as well. Troy, and many others, deserve a second look at evidence that has surfaced. You can't just lock people away and throw away the key. End the death penalty for all!

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