Don Davis is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 17 April. He has been on death row for 25 years, having been sentenced to death in 1992 for a murder committed during a burglary in 1990. Twenty seven years old at the time of the crime, he is now 54.
Don Davis is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 17 April. He has been on death row for 25 years, having been sentenced to death in 1992 for a murder committed during a burglary in 1990. Twenty seven years old at the time of the crime, he is now 54.
1) TAKE ACTION
Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:
- Calling for clemency for Don Davis and for his death sentence to be commuted;
- Expressing concern that he was denied the expert psychiatric assistance at trial he was too poor to afford;
- Explaining that you are not seeking to condone violent crime or to downplay its consequences.
Contact below official by 17 April, 2017:
The Honorable Asa Hutchinson, Governor of the State of Arkansas
State Capitol, Suite 250, 500 Woodlane St, Little Rock, AR 72201, USA
Fax: +1 501 682 3597
Email: http://governor.arkansas.gov/contact-info/ (use US detail)
Salutation: Dear Governor
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