NAACP President Visits Savannah in Support of Troy Davis

Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) speaks during a rally held in Savannah on Saturday. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) president and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous was in Savannah this weekend and spoke at a rally as a part of "I AM TROY," a grassroots campaign and petition drive to spare Troy Davis from execution at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson.

The NAACP launched the campaign to save the life of Troy Davis, an African American man on death row, who will be executed unless Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue or the Savannah District Attorney Larry Chisolm intervene.

The NAACP is calling on people to get involved and contact Governor Perdue or Savannah District Attorney Chisolm urging them to not allow the execution of an innocent man.

Davis has been on death row in Georgia for nearly 18 years for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail.

There is no physical evidence linking Davis to the crime and seven of the nine witnesses have recanted or contradicted their original testimony, several saying they were coerced.

Jealous, who recently met with Davis on death row said, “This is the most compelling case of innocence in decades."

Jealous, along with members of the local and state NAACP went door to door urging Savannahians to sign a petition calling for the investigation into the 20-year-old slaying to be reopened. the petition campaign aims to gather 10,000 new signatures locally in addition to more than 7,000 already obtained for Chisolm's consideration.