International Action Center statement on the murder of Troy Davis

The International Action Center strongly condemns the state-sanctioned murder of inmate, Troy Davis, by the racist state of Georgia Sept. 21 at 11:08 p.m. Davis maintained his innocence while strapped to a gurney in the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer for which he was sentenced to death row in 1991. Hundreds of his supporters, the majority of them African American, stood vigil for many hours outside of the death house in Jackson, Georgia despite the armed presence of many police and correctional officers. Troy Davis did not die in vain. The legal lynching of this heroic 42-year-old African American will serve as a strong inspiration in the struggle to abolish the death penalty and all forms of racist injustice. Troy Davis Presente!!