Clemency

I just received an email from Amnesty International USA regarding the possible upcoming execution of a man named Troy Davis, who has been on death row for 15 years in Georgia in spite of rather high degrees of insubstantive evidence linking him to the death of a police officer.

I admit, I'm not always very keen to weigh in on issues like this because I feel I lack enough information to make a clear decision, but in this instance I share their plea for assistance with you all for two reasons. The first is that I am totally against the death penalty in all cases and so I have no compunction about pressuring them to commute the death sentence. Secondly, if you read the information, the case is pretty strong for at least a sufficient degree of doubt to surface--a degree that should not be present when invoking capital punishment.

So I am sharing the story with you here, and if you feel so moved, please send a letter and share this story further.