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News Coverage of the Troy Davis Case

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Amnesty International has established this page for individuals to take action in the Troy Davis case. "Savannah DA opens up on Davis case; With Troy Davis' appeals apparently exhausted, DA blasts death penalty critics, media and judicial system," is the lengthy report in Law.com's Fulton County Daily Report.  It's written by Alyson M. Palmer.Now that a concerted legal and public relations campaign to save Troy Davis from the death penalty appears doomed to fail, the prosecutor in the case has broken his virtual silence on the matter. In a seven-page statement released Tuesday just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up Davis' case, Chatham County District Attorney Spencer Lawton Jr. said that the process of Davis' case has been unfair?to everyone but the man condemned to death...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).