Poster commemorating 1st anniversary of execution of Troy Anthony Davis . (courtesy of NAACP) From the time he was first placed on trial for the murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989 until his death by execution one year ago, September 21, 2011, more questions than answers have tended to accumulate where the case of Troy Anthony Davis was and is concerned. As far as any observers––including such trained onlooker as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Amnesty International, and Color of Change–– have been able to tell, Davis was not executed because he was proven guilty.  He was executed because technicalities of applied legal practice and questionable choices in regard to his defense failed to confirm his innocence. For the average person, such a distinction is murky at best. For Troy Anthony Davis––and for an as yet undetermined number of individuals––it literally meant the difference between life and death. ...

( AP photo of Davis protesters by David Tullis ) After many people had made their peace with the idea of Georgia death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis’ life ending at 7 p.m. on September 21, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Courts just after 7 p.m. issued a call for a “temporary delay” of his death, but then again at 10:20 said it would not block the execution. Officials then announced that Davis was executed at 11:08 p.m. Please click the link to read the full article by Aberjhani : Savannah Talks Troy Anthony Davis No. 16: Davis Executed - National African-American Art | Examiner.com

(photo by Stephen Morton of Virginia Davis on left with Martina Davis-Correia on their way to evidentiary hearing for Troy Anthony Davis) If the whole point behind continuing to seek the execution of Troy Anthony Davis after his two decades on death row in Georgia has been to take another life in exchange for that of slain officer Mark Allen MacPhail, some may say that Davis’s mother, Virginia Davis, paid that price on her son’s behalf when she passed April 12, 2011, in Savannah, Georgia, at the age of 65. To continue please click the following link : Savannah Talks Troy Anthony Davis No. 13: Death of Virginia Davis - National African-American Art | Examiner.com