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Mintpress News (blog)
January 2, 2018
Virginia died five months before Troy's September 2011 execution, according to her daughters, due to the stress of the appeals hearings. Troy's older sister, Martina Correia, was amongst those who had campaigned tirelessly for her brother's life. Correia continued to work to make the death penalty a relic ofÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
September 23, 2014
For the following three weeks, from September 21 until October 10, World Day Against the Death Penalty, groups around the country will gather to read I Am Troy Davis. The idea was developed in partnership with the NAACP, Amnesty International and Equal Justice USA, with the hope that diverse groupsÃâà...
Huffington Post
July 9, 2014
The last few years have been difficult for Antone De'Juan Davis Correia. In September 2011, his uncle, Troy Davis, was executed in Georgia after his case grabbed the nation's attention and sparked widespread controversy. Less than three months later, Correia's mother, Martina Correia who had been theÃâà...
CNN International
April 7, 2012
She hears her sister, Martina Correia: "Don't give up the fight." And her mother ... By the time of Davis' execution last September, she was bound to a wheelchair. A chest tube helped her ... The doubt cast over Troy Davis' guilt made him a poster child for opponents of capital punishment. Correia becameÃâà...
Workers World
December 8, 2011
Undoubtedly, many who saw her at Troy Davis rallies never imagined the slim, stylishly-dressed woman with the brilliant smile and magnetic personality was undergoing multiple sessions of chemotherapy and radiation. Martina's struggle against the death penalty went far beyond her concern for the fate ofÃâà...
Huffington Post
December 2, 2011
The legal proceedings became a rallying point for opponents of the death penalty, who argued that there was too much reasonable doubt in his case for him to be executed. Following Davis's conviction, seven of the nine prosecution witnesses recanted their testimonies, and a prosecutor said in theÃâà...
Socialist Worker Online
December 1, 2011
And every year we come upon this case, there's more and more doubt, yet the case--the state pushes for an execution. ... with him, and this movement should not end with him, because if we can amass millions of people to stand up and say, "We will not stand for this," then we can end the death penalty.
Democracy Now
September 26, 2011
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says Georgia's execution of high-profile death row prisoner Troy Davis last Wednesday may have violated international law, citing serious concerns that ... Troy's case is going to be a catalyst for change in the death penalty, particularly in the South.
CBS News
September 22, 2011
They represented hundreds of thousands of supporters worldwide who took up the anti-death penalty cause as Davis' final days ticked away. "I am innocent," ... High Court rejects Troy Davis' last minute appeal ... "Troy Davis has impacted the world," his sister Martina Correia said before the execution.
Women's eNews
April 24, 2011
Gail Chasey, who authored the bill ending capital punishment there, Yarbrough is one of many women driving the national momentum to abolish capital punishment in the ... One of the women now fighting hard against the death penalty is Martina Correia, the sister of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis.
