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• American Party of Labor Statement On The State Murder of Troy Davis

  By The Red Phoenix on September 23, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Troy Davis is dead. Despite the appeals of many, despite an overwhelming lack of evidence in his case, the capitalist “justice” system decided that he must die. Like a lynch mob in the American apartheid known as Jim Crow, the… Read More ›

• Troy Davis Execution Delayed

  By The Red Phoenix on September 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Troy Davis’ execution was delayed tonight as the Supreme Court weighed arguments by Davis’ legal team and the state of Georgia over whether he deserves a stay. At 7:05 p.m. tonight, five minutes after his scheduled death, Davis’ supporters erupted… Read More ›

• Davis Attorneys File Emergency Stay of Execution

  By The Red Phoenix on September 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In a last ditch effort to save their client from death, Troy Davis’s attorneys have just filed a motion for an emergency stay of execution. In their motion, the lawyers wrote: “No physical evidence has ever conclusively linked Mr. Davis… Read More ›

• Troy Davis Execution Approaches As Calls For Clemency Continue

  By The Red Phoenix on September 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  JACKSON, Ga. — Behind razor wire and thick concrete walls, Troy Davis spent what may be his final hours Wednesday with friends and family, awaiting his execution at 7 p.m. for the murder of a police officer over 20 years… Read More ›

• Troy Davis wants polygraph ahead of execution

  By The Red Phoenix on September 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  (Reuters) – A condemned man set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for killing a Georgia police officer in a high-profile case wants a polygraph test in a last-ditch bid to show his innocence, Amnesty International USA said…. Read More ›

• While Troy Davis is Left to Die, Rapist & Murderer Army Recruiter has Third Stay of Execution

  By The Red Phoenix on September 21, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former Army recruiter who for the third time this year was hours away from his scheduled execution for the rape-slaying of a woman in Fort Worth nearly 10 years ago was granted yet another reprieve… Read More ›

• “To All” – A Message from Troy Anthony Davis

  By The Red Phoenix on September 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  To All: I want to thank all of you for your efforts and dedication to Human Rights and Human Kindness, in the past year I have experienced such emotion, joy, sadness and never ending faith. It is because of all… Read More ›

• Death-row inmate Troy Davis denied clemency

  By The Red Phoenix on September 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole has denied clemency for death-row inmate Troy Davis. Davis was convicted of the 1989 killing of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7… Read More ›

• Video: Troy Davis’ Sister Kimberly Davis Makes Last Plea Before Possible Execution

  By The Red Phoenix on September 20, 2011 • ( 0 )

  From Too Much Doubt:

• After Winning Global Support, Troy Davis Loses Clemency Bid

  By The Red Phoenix on September 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  A Georgia parole board Tuesday denied clemency for Troy Davis, a death row inmate who garnered global support for his claims of innocence. His execution is scheduled for Wednesday night. After hearing exhaustive pleas both from Troy Davis supporters and… Read More ›

• HPV Vaccine: The Science Behind The Controversy

  By Editor-in-Chief on September 19, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  by Richard Knox The first vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer, came out five years ago. But now it has become a hot political topic, thanks to a Republican presidential debate in which candidate Michele Bachmann… Read More ›

• Review of “Are Prisons Obsolete?”

  By The Red Phoenix on September 18, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  In our “democratic” society, we have been taught that, while everyone is entitled to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” there are those who do not deserve the same “rights” to which we are all supposedly entitled. The exception… Read More ›

• Protesters Take to the Streets in New York

  By The Red Phoenix on September 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  NEW YORK — Hundreds of people marched Saturday near Wall Street in New York, but the city thwarted their bid to descend into the heart of global finance itself to protest greed, corruption and budget cuts. Protesters had planned to… Read More ›

• Karl Marx Voted Greatest Thinker of the Millennium

  By The Red Phoenix on September 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Marx took the top spot by a wide margin followed by Einstein, Newton, and Darwin, in second, third and fourth places. Revolutionary writer Karl Marx has topped a BBC News Online poll to find the greatest thinker of the millennium…. Read More ›

• Anti-Black Racism Among Libyan Rebels

  By The Red Phoenix on September 14, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  “the brigade for purging slaves, black skin” – slogan seen painted in rebel country Michael McGehee wrote in Victims of a Civil War, Z Magazine, April 5: Libya, located in northern Africa, has a majority Arab population. It also has… Read More ›

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