Troy Davis to Die Next Week: Will Georgia Execute an Innocent Man?

By Michelle Garcia, Amnesty International Magazine. Posted September
17, 2008.

The case of Troy Davis led to a global call to save his life. But in
Savannah, Georgia, a legacy of racism and fear has kept people silent.
Editor's Note: Troy Anthony Davis faces execution on September 23rd.
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Prison Boulevard begins on a lonely Georgia highway and sweeps across
lush grounds and a serene lake populated with ducks. One might expect
a sprawling ranch house at the end of this country road in Jackson,
but there rises instead the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification
prison, a mammoth institution whitewashed to a glare. To reach death
row inmates, visitors traverse a series of yellow iron gates opened
and shut in a chain reaction until they arrive at a guard holding open
a heavy door. Inside the long, narrow cell waits Troy Anthony Davis --
a man condemned for the 1989 murder of a Savannah police officer, and
an international cause -- wearing a prison-issue white and blue
uniform, electric blue sneakers and a wide smile.