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CAMPAIGN TO ABOLISH MARYLAND'S DEATH PENALTY & TO FREE MARSHALL EDDIE CONWAY -- REMEMBER TROY DAVIS!  Mass Demonstration at State Capitol Building in Annapolis  Thursday, March 29, 2012 @ 10:45 a.m.  On THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012, at 10:45 a.m., at the State Capitol in   Annapolis, Maryland, the Maryland Coalition for Justice &   Progressive Change plans to lead a mass demonstration against the   Maryland death penalty and for the liberation of former Black Panther   Marshall Eddie Conway.  This mass rally will be a COALITION OF THE 99%   against state-sponsored injustice!  We will rally in remembrance of the   senseless execution of Troy Anthony Davis!  FROM ALL OVER THE ENTIRE   EAST COAST, COME & JOIN OUR STRUGGLE AGAINST RACIST BIGOTRY &   INJUSTICE.  In Maryland, since the end of the Civil War in   1865, 191 people have been executed; but 157 of that number (or 82.2%)   were black.  Since 1882, white mobs in Maryland lynched 29 people, with   27 of that number (or 93.1%) being black.  In fact, today, 80% of the   people on Maryland's death row are black men.  Moreover, as of today,   77% of the more than 25,000 people locked away in Maryland's prisons and   jails are black.  In contrast, black people make up merely 28% of the   state's population.  In light of these statistics, we condemn the   racially bigoted application of the Maryland death penalty.  In   addition, from 1968 through 1970, while presiding over the Baltimore   chapter of the Black Panther Party, Marshall Conway condemned racist   bigotry by the Baltimore City police and F.B.I.  To retaliate, Baltimore   City police framed Marshall Conway for an April 1970 murder that   happened in west Baltimore while Conway taught a political education   class in east Baltimore.  In other words, Marshall Conway had an alibi   that proved his innocence.  Nevertheless, the state government convicted   and imprisoned this innocent man for 42 years.  As a result, the   Maryland Coalition for Justic... Read more

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