Video of the Week: A life in the Balance -
Examining the Troy Davis Case
Troy Davis, convicted of murdering an off-duty Savannah, GA police officer more than two decades ago, is set to be executed by the State of Georgia in two days. Davis has gained growing international support for his claim that he is innocent. Celebrities, Nobel laureates and national leaders have joined the NAACP, Amnesty International and the grass-roots group Change.org to urge Georgia authorities to grant clemency to Troy Davis, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday. They are flooding Twitter with several tweets a minute, signing online petitions and, starting today, planning to rally around the country.
Whether you think Troy Davis is innocent or not, it's clear to see from the following web videos from Amnesty International that the case against him is extremely flawed and considering the fact that 10 witnesses in the case have signed affidavits recanting their testimony and indicating that police coerced them into implicating Davis, and that nine people have signed affidavits implicating another man, we should not be convicting someone to death when their is so little evidence and so much unclear.
We encourage you to learn more about this story by watching the video series below. If you'd like to join the campaign to save Troy Davis's life, you can visit:
http://troyanthonydavis.org/
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/cases/usa-troy-davis
http://action.naacp.org/campaign/davis
Part 1: The Investigation
Part 2: A Case Unravelled
Part 3: Proving Innocence
Part 4: Clemency - The Final Fail Safe
Extra: More on the Troy Davis Case
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