State of Georgia carries out murder of Troy Davis

25.9.11

State of Georgia carries out murder of Troy Davis: [uhurunews.com] On Wednesday, September 21 at approximately 11:00pm U.S. Eastern Time, after a three hour intervention, in which the U.S. supreme court denied a motion for a stay of execution, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis.

Leading up to the murder, African people and allies around the world expressed their demand that the execution be stopped.

The execution follows a ruling by U.S. colonial courts on Tuesday that Troy Davis would be murdered in the legal lynching that was originally scheduled for Wednesday, September 21 at 7:00pm U.S. Eastern Time.

Davis, 42, an African man who had been on death row for more than 20 years, was framed up and convicted in the 1989 death of a white policeman in Savannah, GA.

Despite no physical evidence and the recanting of testimony by seven of the nine witnesses, plans for the execution of Davis, one of the millions of African men trapped in the colonial prison system, went forward.

Massive protests from African people and our allies all over the U.S. and the world and more than 60,000 letters demanded that the State stop the murder of Davis.

Although Davis was clearly innocent of the charges, the issue is much greater than that. Davis is one more victim of the U.S. colonial system which holds the power of life or death over African people inside this country and around the world!

The State murder of Davis highlights the reality that the U.S. is built on a foundation of the enslavement of African people which created the wealth and power that the U.S. and white people enjoy today.

The attack on Troy Davis exposes the fact that 146 years after the so-called abolition of the chattel slave system in this country, African people still exist as an internal colony inside U.S. borders under the yoke of a military occupation no different than the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan today. In fact, more Africans have been killed by U.S. police in the past ten years than U.S. military have been killed in Afghanistan in the same time period.