By KRISTOPHER STOUGH
“I am Troy Davis” read on the protesters shirts and signs. Hours later, the man that protesters gather for was killed by lethal injection, for a crime he may not have committed.
“Our justice system is not perfect. There will be flaws and this it the by product of our flaws. Sadly Troy Davis is one of them,” Social Justice Club President Kinsey Seacord Said.
Cindy Schmidt and the SJC informed people of the case against Davis. SJC collected one-fourth of the schools population to send to the Georgia Board of Paroles. Schmidt and her students also have been writing Davis to support him and learn more about him.
“My students and I have sent letters to Troy for eight years now. He has responded we have a relationship and we care about him,” Schmidt said.
People believe there was not enough evidence to execute him, prosecutors had no DNA evidence that he killed the police officer in 1989. The only evidence prosecutors had were eye witnesses, which seven of them changed their testimony from what they said in court. The witnesses said that the police pressured them into lying or curving the truth about what they saw.
Despite the singed petitions and the evidence, the Georgia Board of Parole and the Supreme Court denied his final bid for clemency.
“People who support the death penalty should be most outraged. Putting Troy Davis to death challenges the validity of the death penalty. His death sentence means we could have executed an innocent person,” Schmidt said.
