{"article":{"id":248587,"heading":"BTL:Despite its Failure to Stop the Execution of Troy Davis, Campaign To End U.S. Death Pe","author":"Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http","created":"2011-10-09 11:05:31","modified":"2013-11-11 01:06:45","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:06:45","article":"<p>Despite its Failure to Stop the Execution of Troy Davis, Campaign To End U.S. Death Penalty Grows <br><br> Interview with Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, conducted by Melinda Tuhus  <br>  <br>   <br>  <br> Despite an international campaign and petition drive that collected nearly 1 million signatures to stop his execution, 41- year-old Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection in a Georgia prison on Sept. 21. In the weeks before the execution, Amnesty International, which has long campaigned against the death penalty, helped organize 300 vigils and other events in an attempt to pressure Georgia state authorities to commute Troy Davis&rsquo; death sentence.   <br><br> Story continues  <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2011\/seg\/111014cf-btl-dieter.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2011\/seg\/111014cf-btl-dieter.html<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mail(AT)btlonline(DOT)org","link":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","address":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Interview with Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, conducted by Melinda Tuhus","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2011\/10\/248587.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}