27 January 201015 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Troy Davis and the quest for justice

originally published by: Harvard Law School
7th January 2010

On Wednesday, September 16, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice hosted an event to recognize the extraordinary death penalty case of Troy Anthony Davis.

Charles Ogletree ’78, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, moderated a panel which brought to together Davis’; sister, Martina Correia, his amicus counsel Kathleen Behan, and Jason Ewart, an Arnold and Porter associate who represented Davis during his habeas corpus petition before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The story of Troy Anthony Davis’ case began on August 19, 1989 with the shooting death of police officer Mark MacPhail in a Savannah, Georgia Burger King. Two years later, Troy Anthony Davis was convicted and sentenced to death.

23 January 201015 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Supreme Court ruling against Mumia

originally published by: Bay View
20th January 2010

On Tuesday, Jan. 19, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal and granted the Philadelphia DA’s petition for a writ of certiorari. Basically, the Supreme Court went against the lower federal circuit court’s 2001 and 2008 rulings, which granted a new sentencing phase jury trial if the death penalty was to be reinstated in Jamal’s case.

Now the case goes back down to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, who will decide whether they will re-impose the death penalty without the jury trial.

In a recent interview with the Block Report, Mumia spoke about the Spisak case, in which the death penalty has since been reinstated for the white supremacist murderer Frank Spisak.

3 January 201015 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Inmate dies suddenly in prison cell

Source: Issued by MOJUK
31st December 2009

Anthony Nolan had always protested his innocence and kept fighting over the years, he was found dead in his cell just three days before Christmas. The press release (below) from the Ministry of Justice is bland and does not tally with the phone calls MOJUK has had from prisoners in HMP Kingston, who more than suspect that prison negligence, contributed to Anthony’s death.

Anthony felt strongly that the British Justice system had failed him, he wrote in 2003, “One explanation may be the fact that I am of Irish origin and we know how the Irish community have in the past suffered at the hands of British injustice.”