This weekend in Savannah, Georgia, Troy Anthony Davis was laid to rest.
Davis was killed by lethal injection in Jackson, Georgia on Sept. 21
after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stop his execution. The
2,000-seat Jonesville Baptist Church was filled to capacity for his
funeral. While his body was being lowered into the burial ground, 23
doves were released. The first was symbolic of his spirit, and the
remaining 22 represented each year Davis spent in prison. He was
convicted of the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer, Mark
MacPhail. Since then, seven of the nine witnesses have recanted their
testimony, and there was no physical evidence that tied Davis to the
crime scene. Democracy Now! was in Savannah for the funeral and we play
excerpts from the eulogies by Jason Ewart, Troy Davis’s attorney and an
eyewitness to his execution; Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP; Larry Cox, president of Amnesty International USA; Lou DuBose, president of NAACP-Georgia;
Lenda Sullivan-Russell, friend of Troy Davis; Rev. Raphael Warnock,
pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church; Antone’ De’Juan Davis-Correia, nephew
of Troy Davis.
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