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Creative Loafiong's Fiction Contest 2009 - Food Issue
My week on an all-Georgia diet - Atlanta's 11 Least Influential 2008
Six were deemed so un-influential that we didn't run them in print. - CL's College Guide
The student body handbook - Best of Atlanta 2008
Raging Election!
TODAY’S CREATIVE LOVING PROFILE
TROY DAVIS: AN INNOCENT MAN?
As Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis approaches what's likely to be his third and final execution date, his supporters are left wondering: How could evidence that so strongly suggests his innocence be so long ignored?
COVER STORY
THE CONDEMNED
Troy Davis’ was the fifth execution scheduled in Georgia this year. Each raises hard questions about the death penalty.
By Mara Shalhoup
Published 10.08.08
Defense attorney Steve Bright, who arguably knows more about the death penalty than anyone in Georgia, likes to tell a story about former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder.
THE WITNESSES
Seven of nine witnesses against Troy Davis have recanted their testimony. Click here for excerpts from their sworn recantations.
UP TO DATE COVERAGE
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CREATIVE LOAFING’S COVERAGE OF DAVIS & THE DEATH PENALTY
Amnesty International leads fight to get Troy Davis off Georgia's Death Row
What is most puzzling to Virginia Davis is that nearly all of the witnesses who helped send her son...
Under the Republican Dome
The conservative majority's agenda, and what it means for Georgia
Learning to hit a lick
Falicia Blakely was a 16-year-old dancer when she met a pimp 11 years her senior. Within two years, she'd be a prostitute facing the death penalty for three murders.
VIDEO: RALLY FOR TROY DAVIS
On Sept. 18, 200 people marched down Auburn Avenue to support Troy Davis.
Video by Creative Loafing’s W. Hassan Marsh of a Sept. 18 protests.
OTHER RESOURCES ON THE DEATH PENALTY
» Troy Davis’ web page
» Bob Herbert’s Sept. 19 New York Times column on Davis
» Amnesty International’s “Finality Over Fairness” page on Troy Davis
» The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s 2007 death penalty series, “A Matter of Life or Death.”
» The Chicago Tribune’s 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning series of columns on the death penalty
THE EXONERATED
A gallery of 7 of the 130 death row inmates who have been exonerated since 1973
