Editor's note:

The Georgia Attorney General's office has just issued a death warrant for Troy Davis to commence on Sept. 23rd, which will likely be the date of the scheduled execution. This date is very soon, so we need all the help we can get to spread the word and encourage members to take action - we hope that you will be able to help mobilize groups and activists in your state / region.

The Pardon and Parole Board will be holding a clemency hearing, most likely the day before the execution, and the strategy right now is to target them with full force. Letters, petitions, etc. from everywhere are encouraged, and any further ideas on ways to mobilize action are welcome.

Petitions, for tabling, etc. are available for download at www.aiusa.org/troydavis . This will also be where any updates on the case and date are posted.
    

            Britta Slopianka, Axis of Logic Correspondent
              for the Abolition of the Death Penalty

Cop killer scheduled for execution
Order signed although 7 witnesses recanted testimony

By RHONDA COOK
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
An execution warrant was signed Wednesday for Troy Anthony Davis, convicted in the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in a case that later saw seven witnesses against recant their testimony.

Davis is the second Chatham County murder convict to have an execution date set this week. On Tuesday, Jack Alderman was scheduled to die for the 1974 murder of his wife on Sept. 16.

The Department of Corrections says Davis is to be executed at 7 p.m. Sept. 23.

The warrant comes six months after the Georgia Supreme Court refused a request by Davis’s lawyers for a new trial.

Davis came within 23 hours of being executed in July 2007, but the state Board of Pardons and Paroles granted him a 90-day stay to give him time to ask the courts to reconsider his case in light of the recanted testimony.

In the meantime, death cases nationwide were effectively put on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of lethal injection, a question that has been resolved.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/09/03/savannah_police_killing.html

For more on the case, visit:

http://www.amnestyusa.org/
http://www.troyanthonydavis.org/
http://www.nodeathpenalty.org/