Troy Davis

I Am Troy Davis By Jen Marlowe (Exploratory Book Review)

Posted on March 28, 2014March 28, 2014 by Deborah Ruth Ferber

The day is Wednesday, September 21, 2011. I am attending university in Toronto, Ontario, hailed as the most multi-cultural city in the world by the United Nations. Since moving to Toronto in 2009 ... Read More

Connecticut and the Death Penalty, a Faith-Based Perspective

Posted on April 7, 2012April 15, 2012 by Practical Matters

The forthcoming issue of Practical Matters (Issue 5: Violence and Peace, release date May 4, 2012), features my interview with the Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist ... Read More

The Execution of Troy Anthony Davis: Finding Wholeness in Times of Complete Despair

Posted on September 25, 2011September 27, 2011 by Nicolas Cable

Disgust. Shock. Outrage. Our country is in mourning. Our nation is truly lost. We are in a whirlwind of emotional upheaval, a roller-coaster of spiritual destruction. The lead up to the execution of T... Read More

What We Could Have Done

Posted on September 23, 2011September 27, 2011 by Gretchen Koch

That the band R.E.M.’s break-up and Troy Davis’ highly controversial state mandated execution would have taken place on the same day is probably an interesting coincidence to no one but... Read More

Finding Hope in a Society That Executed “Troy Davis”

Posted on September 22, 2011September 27, 2011 by Kit Evans

Yesterday a brother named Troy Davis was executed for supposedly killing a police officer over 20 years ago. Though seven out of nine witnesses recanted their statements he was still executed. Over th... Read More

Taking No Pleasure in Death

Posted on September 22, 2011September 27, 2011 by Kari Aanestad

Though I didn’t lose a leg that night, I did lose something else: a naïve belief that my body was somehow exempt from death. My time as a student chaplain in the hospitals of Oxford taught me to co... Read More