While noted professors Howard Zinn, Angela Davis, and Noam Chomsky have started a Concerned Professors for Troy Davis letter that is now circulating across the country, in Palo Alto, members of Amnesty International Chapter 19 gathered signatures in Lytton Square. Their petition calls for the hearing of new evidence in the Davis case.

There is no physical evidence in Troy Davis' case, there is no murder weapon, and another person has been implicated in the murder of an off-duty policeman. The bulk of the prosecutor’s evidence presented at Davis' 1991 trial in Georgia was based primarily on that of prosecution witnesses who later recanted their testimony. Most of them have claimed repeatedly that they were pressured by police to point to Davis as the perpetrator.

So far, no court has been willing to hear the new evidence.