Between life and execution: The Troy Davis story....

[one_voice]

Living the American Dream

She is 18 months older than him, but Martina Correia says her brother Troy and she can complete each other’s sentences. Before their life began to unravel in 1989, the Davis family lived their American dream. “My father, after he left the Military, was the Chatham County Sheriff’s Deputy. We had a brand new house, with two cars, a boat, our picket fence and dogs. We lived in a community full of middle class black people, played ball for the Police Athletic league. Troy became a junior coach. I was the tomboy but Troy was a mama’s boy. Very close to my mother, very protective of our family.

We were taught to be respectful to everyone and taught that you don’t lie, you don’t cheat and if you do something wrong, you own up.

When my sister was about 13 she suddenly became paralyzed from the neck down. Just like that..the doctors said she will never walk again. She stayed in the hospital for two years. I was in the Military, and Troy was the oldest child home. So when my sister got out of the hospital, my mother withdrew Troy from regular High School. He went to High School at night and graduated with Honors. During the day he would work and take care of my sister. He bathed her, did her hair, catheterized her, took her to physical therapy and all her doctor’s appointments. When she came home they wanted to give her an electric wheel chair. But Troy said she will walk. We got a manual wheel chair and he would take her out and tell her that if she wanted to get back to the house she will have to walk. When she graduated High School she walked across the stage with a walker because of Troy.

If you come to Savannah and ask anyone who really knew Troy, they will tell you how much people liked him. He is very bright. I was in the Military and he was getting ready to go into the Marine corps. We believed in God and the country.”

http://www.kavitachhibber.com/main/main.jsp?id=troy_davis_story

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an excellent read...

[sasha031]

1. thank you, will bookmark for tomorrow

[gateley]

2. Bookmarking - I'm too sad to read it tonight, and I know

this will make it even harder.

My heart goes out to his family and friends. I'm just so sorry.

[Zax2me]

3. Wow. I wish the murdered cop got this much attention.

The only mention of him or his family are easy to spot.
They are the threads with no recs.

[readmoreoften]

4. That's because his scumbag family murdered someone else.

He was obviously a good man running to the aid of a homeless man. But his disgusting, filthy, hateful family tortured and murdered another family for 20 years and let the killer go free.

[pacalo]

5. Feel free to start your own OP(s).

This one is about a man wrongfully accused -- an innocent man murdered by the state of Georgia because somebody had to pay.

The state even crossed off the names of Troy's family members who were scheduled to be in the viewing room at the execution. In their places, the state allowed journalists -- strangers to Troy; he wasn't given the grace of seeing the faces of his family in his last moments of life.

Further, the state usually affords all death row inmates limitless phone time to talk with their families. This wasn't the case for Troy Davis. He was provided an expensive phone line & only two 15-minute phone calls a day. What should have been a $5.00 call cost his family $100; no reason was given why on the cost or why he was the only death row inmate who was limited to only two short calls a day.

This case in its entirety looks very bad for the state of Georgia. And after the SCOTUS allowed the execution, it looks bad for our country as well.

The issue at hand is the death penalty & how tragic miscarriages of justice can happen. If anyone could read the facts surrounding Troy Davis' case & still deny that a terrible mistake has been made, then that person will never get it.