Please just think about this thing LOGICALLY and without emotion. There is a reason so many people all over the world are concerned about this case – read the testimony, think back to the situation and what it was like in Savannah, They should have never held the trial in Savannah the first time and certainly not the second hearing that took place with Judge Moore. That man is as biased about this case as the officer’s family and all the locals know this! How can the rest of the world and numerous people in the US feel so strongly that things just don’t add up- that even supreme court justices felt there was such a major problem with the case that they even allowed another hearing – this even before they heard the more recent testimony?

I truly believe that if Mr. Davis is executed those who support the execution and even the officer’s family will end up seeing how much the world and even people in their community are against them for seeking their own emotional needs and some kind of “closure” over that of an innocent man’s life.

Just because a few cops became too emotional during the investigation and made fatal mistakes doesn’t make the police unworthy of our respect and admiration -they and no one else is out there every single day in Savannah with a uniform that simply makes them a target- putting their lives on the line BUT that respect and admiration should NEVER allow fhe actual facts of a case get distorted and lost in the emotion of a crime – no matter who it involves. There will be no closure, there will be no real justice for Officer MacPhail and his family if an innocent person is executed.

There is plenty of reasons (and lack of physical evidence) to believe that Mr. Davis is in fact innocent of this murder. If you are from Savannah then you know how things work, the politics involved with our judges, our DA office,the local attorneys -all the behind closed door relationships that often determine the outcome of a case. not if the person is actually guity or innocent. It has always been like this and unfortunatelyl ooks like it always will – I promise you – they got the wrong guy.

Troy Davis was rightly convicted of executing young off duty police office Mark MacPhail nearly 20 years ago, leaving his widow to raise his infant son. Mark was attempting to break up a fight, if the beating of an unfortunate homeless man by a larger and well fed man can be called a “fight”, when he was knocked to the ground, and the killer (Troy Davis) stood over him and shot him in the face and head, ending his short life. Mark was still in his twenties, and like many young married fathers, was trying to pay the bills by taking a second job (after his full time job as a Savannah Police Officer), as a Security Guard at Trailways bus station and the attached Burger King. He was there to protect the patrons from being preyed upon by just the type of character that Troy Davis is. For this, he lost his life. Brutally, callously, and Needlessly.

Since his conviction, seven of the nine witnesses recanted their statements, based on threats they received in the intervening years, or other improper reasons.

Wisely ignoring ” these new developments “, the state of Georgia is putting Davis on track to be executed — a few years too late in most folks opinion. But with luck perhaps as early as next month, the tax payers will be free of this burden. You can help spare the Victim’s widow and Fatherless Son further anguish by adding your voice to those ashamed of the NAACP’s “name wall”. Also, please ask the Georgia Parole Board to ignore any temptation to tamper with the legally ordained sentence:

http://action.naacp.org/Fry-Troy

I have already added my name, and urge you to do the same. This truly is a matter of honor and responsibility.

Please remember Mark’s life, and end Troy’s. To do otherwise is like standing over Mark’s supine body, and pulling the triger again. Please spare his family and the community this anguish.

Thank you!