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Troy Davis Asks Our Help, from Georgia's Death Row

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TAKE ACTION!! PLEASE SIGN the Petition

CLICK HERE: http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=ekKUJ9PJJbIOLfK&s=bgIKLVOyG8KMKYNwFmH&m=hsISK2PBI9JYH 

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Troy Davis was sentenced to death despite a tainted case and serious claims of innocence. 

To all,

I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith.

It is because of all of you that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her health, but as she tells me she is the eldest and she will not back down from this fight to save my life and prove to the world that I am innocent of this terrible crime.

As I look at my mail from across the globe, from places I have never ever dreamed I would know about and people speaking languages and expressing cultures and religions I could only hope to one day see first hand. I am humbled by the emotion that fills my heart with overwhelming, overflowing Joy.

I can't even explain the insurgence of emotion I feel when I try to express the strength I draw from you all, it compounds my faith and it shows me yet again that this is not a case about the death penalty, this is not a case about Troy Davis, this is a case about Justice and the Human Spirit to see Justice prevail.

I cannot answer all of your letters but I do read them all, I cannot see you all but I can imagine your faces, I cannot hear you speak but your letters take me to the far reaches of the world, I cannot touch you physically but I feel your warmth everyday I exist.

So Thank you and remember I am in a place where execution can only destroy your physical form but because of my faith in God, my family and all of you I have been spiritually free for some time and no matter what happens in the days, weeks to come, this Movement to end the death penalty, to seek true justice, to expose a system that fails to protect the innocent must be accelerated.

There are so many more Troy Davises. This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city by city, state by state and country by country.

I can't wait to Stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or spiritual form, I will one day be announcing, "I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM FREE!"

Never Stop Fighting for Justice and We will Win!

-- Troy Davis

on Death Row in Georgia

 

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Amnesty Int'l and the ACLU have defended Troy's innocence! by Stephen Fox on Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008 at 4:35:34 PM
Don't do it Sonny by Patrick on Thursday, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:30:48 PM
don 't do what? kill him? not kill him? by Stephen Fox on Thursday, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:42:05 PM
NO PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT WHEN 7 OUT OF 9 RECANT by rhalfhill on Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 at 1:29:51 AM
RESPONSE FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL by Stephen Fox on Saturday, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:04:39 AM