[FADPUpdate] STAY!!!

[melliott3 at aol.com]

STAY!!!  90 day stay for Troy Davis of Georgia.

A brief statement has just been posted to the Georgia Board of Pardons 
and Paroles website here.   
http://www.pap.state.ga.us/opencms/export/sites/default/index.html?page=index.html. 
  (Direct link not available at the moment: click on "newsroom" and then 
"press releases.")
In entirety:

Today the State Board of Pardons and Paroles met to hear a clemency 
request from the attorneys representing condemned inmate Troy Anthony 
Davis. After considering the request, the Board voted to grant a stay 
not to exceed 90 days, for the purpose of evaluating and analyzing the 
evidence provided during the Board appointment.

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Friends,

I was packing banners in the FADP truck for the drive to Georgia when I 
got the news.  Martina Correia is Troys's sister.  I have worked with 
her for years.  She is Georgia State Death Penalty Abolitionist for 
Amnesty International.  She is also a driving force behind Georgians 
for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, GFADP.org.  I greatly admire 
her.  She is the daughter of a sheriff's deputy, an army veteran, 
single mom with a teenage son, engaged to a police officer and is 
battling metastatic breast cancer.  She is a sincere and classy lady.  
For 15 years, Martina has been fighting to get to the truth about her 
brother's case and for the state of Georgia to grant him a new trial.  
She has worked tirelessly to end executions everywhere.  Give a listen 
to her interview with Amy Goodman and you will see why FADP was headed 
to Georgia to give our support.

For more info and today's "Democracy Now" interviews on the Troy Davis 
case,  please see 
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/16/1330218

Thanks again to all who have written the Georgia Board of Pardon and 
Parole.  There will likely be a new action coming up soon.  Stay tuned.

FADP will be at the Lightbourne hearings in Ocala this week.

Shine the light,

---Mark

Mark Elliott
Director, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, FADP.org
2840 W. Bay Drive, Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770
(727) 215-9646
mark at fadp.org









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