[HCCN] FW: Troy Davis letter to supporters

[Judith Robbins]

Howard Zinn on the death penalty: "A kind of terror waged by the state, one
death at a time...to instill fear and obedience in the population."


Here is the letter that Troy Davis penned to supporters:

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 can¹t 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.

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