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Martina Correia: "We are still fighting for Troy"

By "Persian Cowboy"

This message is from Martina Correia (Troy's sister).I want everyone to know that we are still fighting for Troy, you have not heard from me in two days because I have been trying to answer so many calls and get rest in between. I went to see Troy yesterday and he is in good spirits, prayerful and saying "we can never give up. They can take my physical form but nothing else." But this is not the time to think he will be executed. We have to fight them and we have to fight hard.I want to first tell you that something strange has taken place with the Parole Board, as we went in the Chair Gale Buckner said they had a lot of information to review and a decision would not be made on Friday. The lawyers presented the additional witnesses who told accounts of police detectives threatening them with guns and the DA threatening with purjury if they changed their testimonies against Troy, most of these people were teenagers, one guy who testified was 15 years old at the time and admitted that he ad he friends were the ones involved in a shooting earlier that night and they threw shell casings near the scene that of course did not have Troy's prints on them...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on September 14, 2008 (boomark / email).