Message from Troy Davis

Sadly the Georgia Board of Parole denied clemency to Troy Davis and he will very likely be executed tomorrow. Please read the following message that he has sent to his supporters. We will be with him until the end.

A message from Troy Anthony Davis

September 10, 2011


Troy was found guilty of murdering a police officer 19 years ago, based
upon the testimony of 9 witnesses. Today, 7 of those 9 have recanted
their testimony entirely, and there are enormous problems with the
testimony of the remaining 2 witness accounts. There is NO OTHER
EVIDENCE. The murder weapon was never found. There is no DNA to test.
Troy is scheduled to die by lethal injection on September 21,
2011.

To All:

I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human
Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such
emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all of you
that I am alive today, as I look at my sister Martina I am marveled by
the love she has for me and of course I worry about her and her health,
but as she tells me she is the eldest and she will not back down from
this fight to save my life and prove to the world that I am innocent of
this terrible crime.

As I look at my mail from across the globe, from places I have never ever
dreamed I would know about and people speaking languages and expressing
cultures and religions I could only hope to one day see first hand. I am
humbled by the emotion that fills my heart with overwhelming, overflowing
Joy. I can’t even explain the insurgence of emotion I feel when I try to
express the strength I draw from you all, it compounds my faith and it
shows me yet again that this is not a case about the death penalty, this
is not a case about Troy Davis, this is a case about Justice and the
Human Spirit to see Justice prevail.

I cannot answer all of your letters but I do read them all, I cannot see
you all but I can imagine your faces, I cannot hear you speak but your
letters take me to the far reaches of the world, I cannot touch you
physically but I feel your warmth everyday I exist.

So Thank you and remember I am in a place where execution can only
destroy your physical form but because of my faith in God, my family and
all of you I have been spiritually free for some time and no matter what
happens in the days, weeks to come, this Movement to end the death
penalty, to seek true justice, to expose a system that fails to protect
the innocent must be accelerated. There are so many more Troy Davis’.
This fight to end the death penalty is not won or lost through me but
through our strength to move forward and save every innocent person in
captivity around the globe. We need to dismantle this Unjust system city
by city, state by state and country by country.

I can’t wait to Stand with you, no matter if that is in physical or
spiritual form, I will one day be announcing,

“I AM TROY DAVIS, and I AM FREE!”

Never Stop Fighting for Justice and We will Win!