Research hospital in order to address some of the major diseases that are endemic to the region. With tremendous wealth comes also some, some diseases such as, for example, adult diabetes, Childhood Obesity and some of those other things that qatar is now trying to position itself as a Global Leader in addressing. I hate to end tonights discussion with a mention of diseases, but its been [laughter] its been a pleasure and an honor being here. Thank you all, and my thanks again to osama. Thank you. [applause] before you adjourn, if you dont mind, i would like to say that we have professor kamrava for two more days here. First hell be appearing at the Carnegie Endowment tomorrow at 1 p. M. To give a talk and then back here at the ccas for a conference on religious and secular trends in africa, and he will also be giving a paper on qatars involvement with some of the religious developments in the region. So, please, join us again tomorrow and the day after. But for now, please join us outside for some snacks, and feel free to continue the conversation with professor kamrava. Thank you again very much. Thank everyone for being here. [applause] wed like to hear from you. Tweet us your feedback, twitter. Com booktv. Troy davis was convicted of killing a Police Officer in 1989. He maintained his innocence until his execution in twch. Next 2011. Next on booktv, jen marlowe, two of troy davis sisters and other participants talk about troy davis trial and the global efforts to keep him from being put to death. His supporters included former president jimmy carter, Pope Benedict vxi and desmond tutu. This is about an hour, ten minutes. [applause] our next speaker is a woman that ive come to know through my, through Amnesty International usa. Shes a woman who if you do know her, you know that this particular case, troy davis case, was not just work for her. Wendy was the type of woman who never left the office when it came to working on this case. She was the type of woman that made this case part of who she was. And the people involved her family. I want to introduce you to wendy gozan b brown. [applause] as i was mulling what to say, one of the most quoted phrases from the [inaudible] rang loud and clear. Pardon my voice, im a little bit sick. One phrase rang loud and clear. He who has saved a life has saved the world. I cannot think of a family that has done more to save the world than the davis family. [applause] for some 20 years, they fought relentlessly to prevent troys execution, and for 20 years they succeeded. But they did far more than that. They called unheard of attention to the cruel and arbitrary nature of the Death Penalty. Troy and his family demonstrated just how easily someone can get wrapped up in a system that is racist and unjust. Their commitment and considerable sacrifice will undoubtedly mean fewer death sentences, sparing men none too different than troy. He who has saved a life has saved the world. It is impossible to talk about troy without mentioning his older sister, martina. Devoted to the her brother, she was the face of the campaign to save him, and as many people here know today, she was a force of nature. Martina was my partner in crime, sneaking troy on a call with reporters that resulted in his first stay of execution. After that, she became one of my closest friends, and she became a mentor, showing me the true meaning of family. The davis faith in god and their loyalty to each other is unsurpassed. They have endured more than any people ive ever met and yet throughout their monumental struggle, i watched them put their own burdens aside to bring into the fold their friends and fellow activists, making many of us honorary members of the family along the way. Their selflessness has had an indelible impact on me. In some small sense, it could be said that the davis family saved me and countless other abolitionists, human rights advocates and Close Friends who learned critical life lessons from them. Now, in turn, it is our collective tooth to make sure troys death was duty to make sure troys death was not in vain. We must continue this fight to abolish the Death Penalty state by state and execution by execution. Nobody is better placed than them to say why this is so critical, so i am humbled, proud and honored to introduce troys middle sister, kimberly davis, and his youngest sister, ebony, and her daughter, kirsten, whom youll hear from later this evening. Please join me in welcoming kim. [applause] [inaudible conversations] good evening. I want to thank yall for coming out on this great event, because as you know on tomorrow will mark the twoyear anniversary of my brothers execution. It has been a long battle, a long struggle, but you all have stood by us. I want to thank larry cox with Amnesty International [applause] laura murray with Amnesty International, shi rell brown, equal justice usa, the naacp [applause] ms. Jen marlowe [cheers and applause] we also have Kim Manning Hooper with amnesty u. K. Kim, can you please stand . [applause] as wendy mentioned, when we first started out, it was the davis family, it was my sister, martina, who was persistent in getting my Brothers Story out. Through that struggle, like she said, you know, we they have come to be extended family. We have larry, my nephew calls larry uncle larry. Kim, shes the duchess, shes auntie kim. Wendy is auntie wendy, auntie laura, and jen is our baby sister. [laughter] but, you know, god has actually kept us together. We have so many supporters, so many very dear friends of troys that are here. I dont want to, you know, miss any names, but we have gloria canello, rosanne harvey. I just want to thank all of yall that are here. We are here tonight on one occasion, and thats to celebrate the life and the legacy of troy. Some of troys last words were to his friends and supporters to continue to fight to end the Death Penalty, and thats what were going to do. My sister martina was the voice of troy, and she always told people that she was her brothers keeper, and she was that, her brothers keeper. When troy was executed, the day that he was executed, he gave each and every Family Member and each and every person that came and visited him on death row that day, he gave all of us a charge. He told us, he said dont cry, dont hold your head down. You dont have anything to be ashamed of. He said he wanted to thank us for standing by him, thank us for holding up his name, thank us for fighting for justice. And he wanted us to continue that fight. He said whatever we do, it it ws not going to end with him. He said it didnt begin with him, and it was not going to end with him. There were many more troy davis before him and after him. Someone, i was talking with someone just on last night, and we were actually talking about, you know, troys life in the prison. For 17 and a half years, they had one warden that when troy went before the parole board, this warden actually wrote letters to the parole board asking the parole board not to execute troy. We have a very flawed Justice System. We saw that firsthand in the city of savannah, the state of georgia. After the 17 and a half years, the new warden that came to the prison, warden humphries, i dont think any of yall know what im getting ready to say. Warden hum frees on the first day he came to the prison, he told troy that your celebrity days are over. Im going to make your last days on earth a living hell. Troy couldnt understand why the new warden that came into the prison had this to say to him. Troy said he continued to give him respect. That warden, they had recreation where they, you know, arts and crafts where they would, you know, croce different things. Troy used to croce hearts. He did doll babies, pocketbooks and all kinds of stuff. The warden, he took it away. After he took that away, he went to take away the contact visits for the inmates. They had contact visits for as long as troy well, before troy was even at that prison for 17 and a half years. He took away the contact visits. And then with the death row inmates, they were able to get snacks out of the vending machines, you know, from their Family Members and friends to heat up during the visitation. The warden stopped with the snacks for the inmates. Then he actually put them on a 23hour lockdown. They had one hour to come out to either you had a decision, to take a shower, go out in the rec yard or make one 15minute phone call to your Family Members. True it all through it all, troy continued to keep his faith in god, continued to pray, and our family still continued to go and visit him every other weekend for 17 and a half years. We went to georgias death row which was four hours from savannah, georgia. We went every saturday for 17 and a half years. And then troy told us, he said that, you know, he wanted us to go on with our lives. But we told him that was our life, he was our life. And if he was in prison serving on death row, we were all in prison serving on death row. Then we started going every other weekend. But, you know, when the warden put them on the 23hour lockdown and the day that my brother was executed, warden humphreys actually came to mr. Benjamin jealous and was bragging. He asked do you know who i am . And ben said, yeah, youre the warden of the prison. And he said, no, do you really know who i am . And he asked, who are you, and he said with a smirk on his face that he was actually a Police Officer on the streets of savannah in 1989 when the officer had gotten killed. Before troy had gotten his last execution date, the warden actually came to troy two weeks before he had gotten his execution date and told him that he had had another execution date scheduled. Troy called us in a frantic panic. My sister called his attorneys. The attorneyings said that they didnt have an execution date scheduled, the warden was just trying to get a rise out of you. We were grateful that the Supreme Court actually gave us an evidentiary hearing. The evidentiary hearing was actually brought back to the 11th circuit which was the same courts that actually convicted troy. We could not have a fair trial in the 11th circuit. Many, it was many of you that were there during the hearing with the 11th circuit, and you had judge William Moore who was actually supposed to be a judge for justice. Understand that when we had the witnesses that recaptained their statement recanted their statement, their testimonies coming to testify to tell truth, we had the judge, William Moore, sitting on the stand asleep. Like the case didnt matter to him. It was with the city of savannah even one of the lead detectives, he said that he can remember the 70s, he can remember the 90s, but he really couldnt remember anything about the 80s, but he was one of the lead detectives. You had the district attorney, under his reign you had three other gentlemen that he actually sentenced to death that their death sentences were overturned because of prosecutor yall misconduct in their cases. The system in the state of georgia was a very flawed system. When we know that something is wrong, we need to stand up for whats right and make our voices heard. [applause] we know that the Death Penalty is wrong. Its okay for us to come is and sit here in the church to honor my brother, but to honor him would be to get out and make your voices heard. Join one of these organizations. Get out and speak against the Death Penalty. Our elected officials, they are just that, elected officials. We put them in their jobs. If theyre not doing a job that we want them to do, if theyre not doing whats right, then we need to get their behinds out there and get somebody in that can do whats right. [applause] were going to stand together and end this Death Penalty. Troys last words were for us to continue to fight to end the Death Penalty, and thats what were going to do. You know, they wanted to see us enraged, they wanted to see us in violence. No. You can make a difference by your voice. Let your voices be heard. Stand up and let your voices be heard because i am troy davis. Thank you. [applause] could we give another applause for kim and the family . [applause] and in the book as well is troys own words. I want you to help me welcome by applause, jen marlowe. [applause] its just an unbelievable honor and privilege to be here with all of you to mark this point in whats been really an incredible journey that ive been on and that air been on that ive been on with the davis family and with so many of you. Theres a lot of people to thank, im going to just try to mention a few that havent already been mentioned. You know, i talk about this in a moment, the idea of the book really came from troy and from martina, but if it wasnt for ruth baldwin, is ruth here . Yes. If it wasnt for ruth baldwin, we probably wouldnt be sitting here at least with the book tonight. [applause] so, ruth, thank you. [applause] ruth not only worked, you know, worked as the editor on the book, but she believed in the book so much that she knew it had to find the right home. And be she knew that that right home would be with hay market books. And jason and anthony from hay market books are sitting here, and there could not be a better partner anywhere to bring this story to the world. So thank you so much. [applause] Doreen Shapiro is sitting here. Doreen with, actually, all three of my books totally pro bono has read draft after draft helping me correct grammatical errors im ashamed to admit i made and many other things, but so appreciative. [applause] and so many, you know, so many friends and supporters and people that ive gotten to know and call family over the course of these last five years since i first met the davis family. And i first met them because i saw martina speak on democracy now. And when i saw i had never heard of troys case before, and this was the day after troy had survived his first execution date. He survived that one by about 23 hours. And i heard martina speaking on democracy now, and i think wendy said it best, i was like this woman is a force of nature. And i wanted to learn more about the brother she was so determined to save and whose innocence she believed in so strongly. And i started doing some research on the internet, and i came across the Amnesty International report called where is the justice for me which laid all the specifics of troys case, the recantations, the botched investigation, the lack of any kind of meaningful physical evidence linking troy to the murder of the Police Officer who was killed. And i realized what a travesty of justice it was. So i wrote a letter to troy, just a note of solidarity. He wrote back. We began corresponding. I think thats true for so many of us sitting here who were troys friends. It started with, you know, jotting a card and not realizing that troy was determined to write back to every person who reached out to him, and thats how he created that web of hundreds and hundreds of Close Friendships. And in one of those letters when troy found out i was a documentary film maker, he said, oh, you should make a film about martina. Thats a story of love and tribulation and determination that would inspire everyone, and i remembered seeing martina and knew that he was right, that martinas story and that story of her double struggle for her own life and her brothers life was the most powerful window into the larger story of the human impact of the Death Penalty. And the injustice of the Death Penalty and what it does to innocent families all over the country. And when i finally met martina, which was about a year later,. She she mentioned offhand pee keep telling me i should really write a book, but i dont have time to write a book. As wendy said, she was out there saving the world. Hard to find the time. She said i need someone to work with me on it and pretty much right away i said would you like me to be that person, because i would be honored. And thats how we began working on it. The basis of the book is extensive years worth of interviews with martina, with Family Members, with kimberly, with martinas son, with their mother, virginia davis, who passed away a few months before troy was executed and troy hymn. My first himself. We devised a way for him to participate in the book through letters that we wrote each other, he would contribute stories and anecdotes, phone conversations. But i would say the bulk of the book, most of it happened after troys execution. Most of the work with martina, because martina called me a week after troys funeral when she had gotten a letter from troy. It was postmarked the day of his execution in which he told her to make sure she finished writing her book. And she called me with that letter still in her lap, and she said this is now my highest priority. We dove right in to what was to be the last two months of martinas life. And i remember saying, you know, because we were talking about the most painful things, you know, the whole you know, starting with when the u. S. Supreme court denied troys final appeal which is what paved the way for the execution, martina and troy and ebony and lesters mother virginia passing two weeks after that of a broken heart, not being able to endure a fourth execution date, the whole summer waiting for that execution date to be set and, of course, the ultimate ending. And i said to martina, we dont have to dive into, you know, that deep of the pain yet. We can wait, and martina with her usual grit and determination said, no, lets do it now while the memories are still fresh. And had she not had that courage, again, we would not be sitting here together right now to launch her book and troys book and the davis familys story. Id like the to have just a moment where we celebrate and appreciate martina. [applause] and virginia. And martina and troy and kimberly and ebony, and lesters mom, virginia davis, who was a civil rights activist herself and raised five children to be fighters for justice, warriors for justice. For virginia davis. [applause]