Jimmy Carter Calls for Clemency for Troy Davis
Posted by Staff, AlterNet at 2:50 AM on September 20, 2008.
President Carter called today on the Georgia State Board of Pardons
and Paroles to reverse its decision to deny clemency to Troy Davis.
See Video:
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/99578/
Editor's note: Above is a message from Troy Davis, who is on death row
in Georgia, below is a press release from Jimmy Carter's press
secretary
Atlanta -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter called today on the
Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles to reverse its decision to
deny clemency to Troy Anthony Davis, convicted for an alleged murder
of a Savannah police officer in 1991. "This case illustrates the deep
flaws in the application of the death penalty in this country," said
former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. "Executing Troy Davis without a
real examination of potentially exonerating evidence risks taking the
life of an innocent man and would be a grave miscarriage of justice.
The citizens of Georgia should demand the highest standards of proof
when our legal system condemns on our behalf a man or woman to die."
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