16 September 2011

Help stop a dubious execution

Regardless of your feelings about capital punishment in general, the use of the death penalty in a case full of doubts and inconsistencies is hard to defend. Amnesty International is therefore running a campaign to stop the execution of alleged murderer Troy Davis, which is planned for Wednesday in Georgia, US. In a nutshell, the problems with the case are:


"- 0 physical evidence
  - 6 witnesses have recanted their testimonies 
  - 7 out of 9 witnesses say another committed the murder"



The Amnesty website is encouraging three actions, involving Twitter and email. To make it easier they've even written the damn letter for you!


(For an interesting article about the death penalty in the US and its political implications, there's http://www.slate.com/id/2303922/.)


Effort involved: see the bit about "written the damn letter for you" above.

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