For the past several weeks I have been reporting in Savannah Talks Troy Anthony Davis on the case of Georgia death-row inmate Davis, and slain police officer Mark Allen MacPhail counting down to a Supreme Court decision that was not expected until September 2009. The U.S.’s highest court, however, unexpectedly handed down its historic decision on August 17 to grant Davis a new evidentiary hearing.


This case on its surface may appear to be about determining truth and justice but it also involves quite a bit more. It involves one family’s grief over someone they loved and were forced to bury twenty years ago, and another family’s determination to prevent the execution of someone they love and believe innocent of the murder charge against him. For a look behind the Supreme Court’s surprise decision and stories examining related issues, I invite you read Savannah Talks Troy Anthony Davis and familiarize yourself with this compelling case of justice and family love in America.

Aberjhani

author of Encyclopedia of the ..Harlem.. Renaissance
and The American Poet Who Went Home Again ....