Rights Leaders Phone Call Federal Judges to Halt Davis Scheduled Execution

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable

September 21, 2011
for Immediate Release
Contact: Earl Ofari Hutchinson
323-383-6145

Press Availability: Earl Ofari Hutchinson  323-383-6145

Civil Rights Leaders Make Emergency Phone Call Appeal to the Senior 11^th Circuit District Federal Appeals Court Judges to Stop Davis Execution

 Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other civil rights leaders on Wednesday Morning, September 21, will make an 11^th hour direct phone call appeal to Chief of the 11^th Federal District Court in Atlanta, Georgia Joel F. Dubina and five other senior judges on the 11^th District Federal Appeals Court to grant an emergency stay of the scheduled execution of Troy Davis. The court has jurisdiction over appeals cases in Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.

The rights leaders asked for the emergency stay to allow Davis’s attorneys to file a new legal brief in the case. Federal Appeals judges have granted emergency stays of scheduled executions in a number of cases in the past to allow more time to review evidence in a capital case. L.A. Urban Policy Roundtable Political Affairs Director Pedro Baez personally called each of the judges on behalf of the civil rights leader’s coalition and asked for a stay of Davis’s scheduled execution.

 “We have asked the federal judges in the 11^th District Court for an 11^th hour stay of Davis’s scheduled execution, “ says Hutchinson,” There is more than enough doubt about his guilt to warrant a stay for further review of the case. Davis’s fate now rests squarely in the judges hands.”

Here is the 11^th District Court Senior Judges the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable called.

Chief Judge Joel F. Dubina

Judge James C. Hill

Judge Peter T. Fay

Judge Phyllis A. Kravitch

Judge R. Lanier Anderson

Judge Emmett Ripley Cox

Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals Clerk's Office at:
56 Forsyth St. N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30303
(404) 335-6100