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Continuing the fight for Mumia

originally published by: Socialist Worker.org
15th July 2010

The campaign to End the Death Penalty (CEDP) is appalled by the news that several individuals of leading anti-death penalty organizations have signed a confidential memorandum stating that the “involvement of Mumia Abu-Jamal endangers the U.S. coalition for abolition of the death penalty.”

The memo further argues that the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty should not highlight Mumia’s case because doing so “unnecessarily attracts our strongest opponents and alienates coalition partners at a time when we need to build alliances, not foster hatred and enmity.”

15 July 201016 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Government ‘supports Carty clemency bid’

all credits: The Press Association
8th July 2010

The Government is prepared to do “anything that is necessary” to help a British grandmother who is on death row in Texas for killing a young mother. Linda Carty, 51, was convicted in 2002 over the abduction and murder of a 25-year-old woman after a trial which supporters say was “catastrophically flawed”.

The US Supreme Court decided in May not to review the case which means that Carty’s legal options have been exhausted. But security minister Baroness Neville-Jones said on Thursday at question time in the House of Lords that the Government was doing everything it could to support her attempts to get clemency.

30 June 201016 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Troy Davis finally makes his case to federal judge in Savannah

originally published by: WSAV.com
23rd June 23, 2010

Attorneys for Troy Davis presented their side in the long-awaited evidentiary hearing Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Savannah. Davis, who is on death row, is trying to prove he is an innocent man in an argument that has not been used before. Davis’s lawyers argue he should not be executed because it would be unconstitutional to kill an innocent man.

The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the evidentiary hearing. Davis must prove to the court he is innocent through new evidence.

On Wednesday, the courtroom fell silent as Davis entered from a side door. Davis, dressed in a white, prison-issued shirt and pants with blue trim, smiled briefly at his mother before sitting down at the defense table.