In
a few days a man will be executed. Unless action is taken Troy Davis will be
killed by lethal injection on Wednesday 21 September 2011 at 7pm, US time.
Troy
Davis was convicted of murder in 1991 and has been on death row for 20 years
despite a raft of evidence highlighting his potential innocence and a strong
campaign supported by Amnesty International calling for a new trial or hearing
and clemency.
Killing
another human being is, I believe, fundamentally wrong for many reasons
including, most importantly, the reason cited by Martin Luther King Jnr. who
once said that “The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind”.
Two
days before Troy is due to be executed Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles will
hold a clemency hearing. This meeting will take place tomorrow and decide whether his execution should
proceed or whether his sentence should be commuted.
His
execution is therefore not inevitable. Take action now and contact the Board of
Pardons and Paroles via www.amnesty.org.uk
Let’s cherish and protect human life rather than extinguishing it.
