By The Admin on September 21, 2011
Supreme Court refuses to block execution of Troy Davis.
Posted in Georgia, Supreme Court
By The Admin on September 21, 2011
Troy Davis supporters in the U.S. and Europe were trying just about anything to spare him from lethal injection Wednesday evening for killing a Georgia policeman, a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit.
Supporters planned vigils around the world. They’ll be outside Georgia’s death row prison in Jackson and [...]
Posted in Georgia, Uncategorized
By The Admin on September 21, 2011
Texas is set to execute on Wednesday a white supremacist convicted of helping to kill a black man by dragging him behind a truck, in what some call the most notorious race crime of the post-Civil Rights era.
Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, was convicted of capital murder along with two other men in the kidnapping and [...]
Posted in Texas
By The Admin on September 21, 2011
Authorities have rejected an attempt by a convict, set to be executed in a high-profile case on Wednesday for killing a Georgia police officer, to show his innocence by taking a polygraph test.
Lawyers for Troy Davis, scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. local time, requested a polygraph for their client but prison [...]
Posted in Georgia
By The Admin on September 21, 2011
It’s no secret that African Americans comprise a disproportionately low percentage of people working in technology. Probably less widely recognized are the contributions being made in the high-tech sector by African-American entrepreneurs and corporate executives. This week, both of those topics will get some much-deserved attention on a national stage.
During the Annual Legislative Conference of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
