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  • Exonerated death row inmate Ernest (Shujaa) Graham breaks down in tears during his speech in which he talked about his experience on death row at the May 17th, 2008 rally for death row inmate Troy Davis in front of the Georgia State Capitol. Graham was acquited of murder charges and freed from death row in 1981. Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia; a murder he says he did not commit. There was no physical evidence against Davis ever found and the weapon used in the crime was also never found. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony. Since Davis' conviction over 17 years ago all but two of the state's nine witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony. Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis.
    March 15, 2014
  • Ernest (Shujaa) Graham points to his name on the list of 129 death row inmates who have been exonerated in the United States since 1973 at the May 17th, 2008 Troy Davis rally in front of the Georgia State Capitol. Graham was acquited of murder charges and freed from death row in 1981. <br />
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Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia; a murder he says he did not commit. There was no physical evidence against him ever found and the weapon used in the crime was also never found. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony which contained inconsistencies even at the time of the trial. <br />
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Since then, all but two of the state's non-police witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony. <br />
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Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis.<br />
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Troy Davis has come within 24 hours of being excuted three times in the last two years before he has been granted a stay of execution despite intense doubt of his guilt he remains on death row.
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  • Former California death row inmate Ernest (Shujaa) Graham breaks down in tears while speaking at a rally for death row inmate Troy Davis at the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta on May 17, 2008. <br />
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Graham spent 5 years on death row for a murder he did not commit. He was exonerated in 1981. <br />
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Troy Davis has been on death row since 1989 for the murder of a Savannah, Georgia police officer. Although there is no physical evidence linking Davis to the murder and seven of the nine witnesses who originally identified him as the killer have recanted their testimony Davis remains on death row.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: Around 7:05 pm with no announcement of Davis' death word began to spread in the crowd that Davis had been granted a stay of execution. Laura Seay, assistant Professor of Political Science at Morehouse, excitedly spreads the word that Davis had not been killed.
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  • The idea came to him to do the half funeral, half performance art after his wife and son refused his request to be cremated upon his death. "So I said I will just do my funeral myself," Love explained.
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  • Darby Tillis<br />
Convicted: 1979<br />
Exonerated: 1987<br />
Place of conviction: Illinois<br />
More info about Tillis case: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/ilTillisSummary.html..Tillis Website: http://www.darbytillis.com/<br />
Video of Tillis performing his song "Death Row Shuffle" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1cNUE29Hc...
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  • PHILADELPHIA, PA - August 3, 2000- Henry Kissenger about to be grabbed by the hand of god to atone for his sins of death and war at the 2000 Republican National Convention at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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  • "Death is inevitable. Be ready to meet God, repent for your wrongdoing, you know when you are doing right and wrong." .
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  • Dennis Williams<br />
Convicted: 1979<br />
Exonerated: 1996<br />
Death: 2003<br />
Place of conviction: Illinois<br />
Dennis Williams story: <br />
http://www.icadp.org/content/memoriam-dennis-williams
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 15, 2011: Kung Li organizes boxes containing more than 600,000 signatures in support of clemency for death-row inmate Troy Davis in the reception area of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles at the James "Sloppy" Floyd Building in Atlanta.<br />
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Death-penalty opponents and civil rights leaders this morning delivered more than 600,000 petition signatures to the state Board of Pardons and Paroles asking officials to grant clemency to Troy Davis, the long-time death-row inmate who's maintained he didn't kill Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail more than 20 years ago. More than 40,000 signatures were collected in Georgia.<br />
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According to Amnesty International, a human rights group which has helped raise awareness about Davis' case, nine individuals have signed affidavits implicating another man for the officer's killing..."Mark MacPhail is a hero and we grieve for his mother and family," the NAACP's Edward DuBose said at a morning news conference. But "too many people have come forward and said Troy Davis did not kill MacPhail."<br />
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The five-member Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which meets Monday, is most likely the last hope for Davis, who's scheduled to be executed on Sept. 21. A majority vote by the board will decide whether Davis' sentence is commuted or if his execution will proceed.
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  • Pig roast.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011:  At around 10:30 pm three and a half hours after Davis was scheduled to be executed it became official that the U.S. Supreme Court had denied Davis' stay meaning he would be executed shortly.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: Many hours after the crowd had gathered no word of Davis' fate had been announced and people were encouraged to start thinking about spending the night in front of the capitol to wait for the announcement of Davis' fate. Captain Robinson of the capitol police said that their permit would run out at 11 pm and it would "depend on circumstance" whether police would make arrests. Days earlier Davis supporters had spent the night in front of the James "Sloppy" Floyd building across from the capitol waiting to hear the decision from the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles on whether Davis' execution would go forward.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: Nathan Jordon (black shirt), outside the capitol as the church bells rang signaling 7:00 pm, the time scheduled for Davis' execution. "I am here." he said, "because I am Christian and I believe in the gospel of love."
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: Troy Davis vigils ocurred around the world last night attracting a wide variety of people. ..The protest at the Georgia state capitol was the first demonstration Derrick Spivey (pictured with glasses) had ever attended, "I got tired of sitting around the house and not making a difference," he said.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 16, 2011: Troy Davis' cousin E. Red speaks to the crowd outside Ebenezer Baptist Church, he said he visits Troy Davis weekly at the prison, "Troy is at one with god," he said, "their is nothing the state of Georgia can do to hurt Troy."
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  • "Its unique," said Barbara Phillips, who says Prophet Love saved her years ago and was one of five people at the church during the mock funeral. "It demonstrates that we are all going to go through this and we better get our lives right.".
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  • June 11, 2001 - Terre Haute, Indiana: Outside the United States Federal Penitentiary during Timothy McVeigh's execution.
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  • Vice president Dick Cheney at the 2004 Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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  • Paul Wolfowitz a former United States Ambassador to Indonesia, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, and President of the World Bank. As U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense he was one of the strongest advocates of the Iraq war and he was forced to resign from the World Bank over a controversy sparked by his awarding of a job to his companion and lover.
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  • NEW YORK, NY - August 30, 2004: Former President George H. Bush at the 2004 Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.
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  • The annual Little Five Points Halloween parade marched up Euclid avenue filled with blood, guts and tears. The blood and guts was from the wickedness of the revelers in the parade, the tears were from parents who brought their kids and are guaranteed many sleepless nights filled with their children screaming from the nightmares of what they saw.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: Ariana Lima hugs her son Zion in reaction to the news and "in fear," she said, "that this is the world that Zion will be inheriting."..
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: As the hours passed the crowd at the Capitol began to thin.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: Ink and Joe of the band Vintage Nation kept the crowd upbeat with "freestyle from the heart."
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  • and hope that Davis would not be killed.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: As it got later in the evening crowd members continued to hold signs
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: Jared Heur of Amnesty International updated the crowd from the stage as the evening progressed but little news of Davis' fate was forthcoming.  "We have the ability to change things," he said reflecting on the fact that so many Troy Davis protests had sprung up worldwide that Amnesty had lost count. "They have wanted to kill Troy Davis 3 times and each time they have backed down. Right now they are trying to figure out how they can justify killing an innocent man."
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  • Davis supporters continued to rally at the capitol, with the announcement that the Supreme Court was reviewing the case hope spread that Davis' would be granted a stay and his unjust execution would not occur.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: The crowd outside the capitol five minutes before Davis' scheduled execution.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: The sadness of the crowd as the clock approached 7:00 pm the scheduled time for Davis' execution.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 16, 2011: Rev. Al Sharpton was one of the speakers who addressed the capacity crowd at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 16, 2011: Ebenezer Baptist Church was filled to capacity for the Troy Davis Prayer Service.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 16, 2011: The march ended at Ebenezer Baptist Church where a prayer service was held for Troy Davis.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 16, 2011: Everette R. Harvey Thompson, Southern Regional Director of Amnesty International USA leads chants in Woodruff Park before the kick-off of the march. Amnesty International is one of the groups that has led the fight to gain clemency for Troy Davis.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 16, 2011:  A throng of marchers shut down Auburn Avenue for several city blocks as they marched from Woodruff Park downtown to Ebenezer Baptist Church in support of clemency for Troy Davis who is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, September 21.
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  • ATLANTA, GA-February 23, 2011: Police are investigating a shooting that took place off Donald Lee Hollowell Parkway. Police on the scene wouldn't comment, but Carlton McCraty, who lives about 15 feet from where the deceased body lay, said he heard two large booms at around 12:30 this afternoon. "I just thought it was people working on their cars," he said. "I'm glad it didn't happen when the school was let out 'cause one of the children could have caught a bullet," added his wife Melissa McCraty. Three children live in the McCraty household.
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  • Fort Benning, Georgia........
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  • Dick Cheney at the 2004 Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
    Dick Cheney
  • A man is wheeled away after a motorcycle accident on Piedmont Avenue in Atlanta.
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  • Atlanta muscian B Jay Womack, aka Bobby Ubangi photographed at Atlanta Hospice. Ubangi died of lung cancer, July 1, 2009 the day this issue hit the streets.
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  • "There is no water in hell -- hell is real," said Prophet Love.
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  • Repent! Repent!" Shouting these words Prophet Love seemingly rose from the dead at Last Chance Church on Love street in southwest Atlanta. Staging what he called a "casket demonstration," Prophet Love presented his own funeral in hopes of saving people from the depths of hell..
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  • Prophet Love described lying in the coffin as "not feeling much different then laying in bed."..
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  • On March 25, 2009 Prophet Love presented his own funeral in hopes of saving people from the depths of hell.
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  • Rally to end war on terrorism and support for beseiged Palestinians, Washington D.C. 2002
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  • Coffins line the streets of Manhattan. Protest against Iraq war. 2004
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  • Vice president Dick Cheney at the 2004 Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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  • A man holds a sign, June 10, 2001 in a cornfield across from the U.S. Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana where Timothy McVeigh was to be executed the following day.<br />
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His sign reads "Only a few, have come forward when a call to arms is justified. Tim McVeigh, American Patriot!"<br />
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The bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City which McVeigh was convicted of killed 168 people.
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  • CHICAGO, IL - September 4, 2000: Dick Cheney campaigning for the 2000 Bush/Cheney ticket at the The Taste of Polonia festival, a Polish festival in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Chicago, Labor Day weekend 2000.
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  • Broderick Head's of Broderick Head's Taxidermy in Bremen, Georgia. "I have enjoyed my life as a Master Taxidermist and love to put animals back as close as I can to what God has created in nature... only God can do it better."
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: A couple members of the crowd held signs that advocated violence. A man who gave his name as Troy Davis holds a sign that reads "Good Cop=Dead Cop". He explained "It's more of a statement designed to radicalize people, it does not represent what I feel, its more of a call to action."
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 21, 2011: It was a roller coaster of emotions last night at the Georgia Capitol. Hundreds of Troy Davis supporters gathered for a vigil with a glimmer of hope that Davis would be granted clemency before his execution, which was scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Butts County. <br />
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Supporters braced themselves for the announcement of his execution. But by 7:05 p.m., rumors began to spread that Davis had been granted a stay. Hours passed with no announcement as to Davis' fate and the crowd at the Capitol started to think that his life might be spared. Those hopes were crushed when it was announced around 10:30 p.m. that Davis' execution by the state would move forward.<br />
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Theron Johnson encourages motorists driving past the capitol to honk their horns in support of Troy Davis. Throughout the evening motorists reigned down a chorus of horns.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 16, 2011: Martin Luther King, 3rd, Martin Luther King, Jr's son addressed Davis supporters outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church on Auburn Avenue.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September 16, 2011: Amir Gilliam, 6, watches the march go by in front of Pal's Lounge on Auburn Avenue.
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  • A member of the band New Animal.
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  • A car in the mountains of Crete, the most southern Greek island
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  • A dead dog on the side of the road in Waycross, Georgia
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  • Seems obvious, right?
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  • A car accident outside of Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs, Georgia.
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  • Outside Timothy McVeigh execution, Terre Haute, Indiana, 2001
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  • Prophet Love believes that the majority of people will end up.in hell.
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  • "If we continue with our wrongdoing, heaven will not be our home," he.preached while sitting up in a coffin in which he had laid still for over an hour.
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  • Former President George H. Bush at the 2004 Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.
    George H. Bush 2004
  • Health Care for America Now, MoveOn Political Action and Healthcare NOW sponsored a vigil in Centennial Olympic Park and march to the CNN Center Dec. 10 to urge Senator Isakson and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass health care reform with a public option.<br />
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"The healthcare system is broken," Dr. Minesh Shah, a doctor of internal medicine at Grady Hospital, said during the vigil. "What motivates me is what I see every day, it's a moral outrage."<br />
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According to Shah 45,000 people die a year from lack of health insurance making the lack of access to health insurance the 9th leading cause of death in the United States. According to MoveOn.Org 2,547 Americans go bankrupt every day from medical costs.
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  • ATLANTA, Georgia - September  20, 2011: Kalonji Changa of the FTP movement speaks out on the steps of the Georgia capitol during a protest in support of death row inmate Troy Davis. Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed September 21.
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  • Amy Miller, a local waitress, has no health insurance. She was part of a rally and vigil sponsored by Health Care for America Now, MoveOn Political Action and Healthcare NOW in Centennial Olympic Park Dec. 10. <br />
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"The healthcare system is broken," Dr. Minesh Shah, a doctor of internal medicine at Grady Hospital, said during the vigil. "What motivates me is what I see every day, it's a moral outrage.".According to Shah 45,000 people die a year from lack of health insurance making the lack of access to health insurance the 9th leading cause of death in the United States. Shah was joined by several speakers, including, Sen. Vincent Fort, Sen. Nan Orrock and Larry Pellegrini, Executive Director of the GA Rural Urban Summit. Mayor elect Kasim Reed also sent a statement supporting the work of the groups sponsoring the march and vowing to do his part to effect positive change. "Health care problems are every one's problems and we cannot flourish as a community until they are adequately addressed and inequities are nonexistent," Reed's statement read.<br />
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Following the speakers the group of about 30 people marched to the front of the CNN Center on Marietta Street carrying fake coffins and signs calling for healthcare reform.
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  • DULUTH, GA - JAN 24, 2009: Thousands of people crowded into the Gwinnett Center for an evening of energized violence and brutality. The Toughest Cowboy competition had arrived. <br />
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I shot from the rodeo dirt and focused my camera between the ring bars occasionally dodging hyper aggravated animals. I was so close I could hear the animals snort in Pain? Ecstasy? Revenge? Love? Death? I am not sure what they were feeling but they jumped and ran and kicked and screamed like beasts that had just been released from the gates of hell. <br />
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The cowboys themselves were a beaten and tattered bunch. Tough Cowboy Jared Green from Socorro, New Mexico had to drop out of Saturday's competition because of pain in his shoulder. Green's injuries from rodeo competitions have included breaking both of his ankles, two surgeries on his shoulder, a knee operation, broken ribs, a broken hand, concussions and a knocked-out tooth. Green is only 22 years old.<br />
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The whole event seemed to teeter on epic disaster with batshit crazy horses running directly into fences at full speed and cowboys being thrown face first into the ground over and over again inside an arena of 5000 screaming people from the suburbs in cowboy hats and real cowboys from rural Georgia. It was insane, beautiful and chilling.<br />
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Dusty Elkinton falls from a bull during the bull riding competition.
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  • DULUTH, GA - JAN 24, 2009: Thousands of people crowded into the Gwinnett Center for an evening of energized violence and brutality. The Toughest Cowboy competition had arrived. The contest involved 12 cowboys competing in the triathlon of cowboy chaos, bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding. <br />
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I shot from the rodeo dirt and focused my camera between the ring bars occasionally dodging hyper aggravated animals. I was so close I could hear the animals snort in Pain? Ecstasy? Revenge? Love? Death? I am not sure what they were feeling but they jumped and ran and kicked and screamed like beasts that had just been released from the gates of hell. <br />
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Tough cowboy Lance Kelly from College Station, Texas during the bareback bronc riding competition.
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  • DULUTH, GA - JAN 24, 2009: Thousands of people crowded into the Gwinnett Center for an evening of energized violence and brutality. The Toughest Cowboy competition had arrived. The contest involved 12 cowboys competing in the triathlon of cowboy chaos, bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding. <br />
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I was allowed to photograph from the rodeo dirt and focused my camera between the ring bars occasionally dodging hyper aggravated animals. I was so close I could hear the animals snort in Pain? Ecstasy? Revenge? Love? Death? I am not sure what they were feeling but they jumped and ran and kicked and screamed like beasts that had just been released from the gates of hell.<br />
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Tough cowboy Dusty Elkinton shows extreme calm as he balances sideways on a horse during the bareback bronc riding event.
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  • DULUTH, GA - JAN 24, 2009: Thousands of people crowded into the Gwinnett Center for an evening of energized violence and brutality. The Toughest Cowboy competition had arrived. The contest involved 12 cowboys competing in the triathlon of cowboy chaos, bareback bronc riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding. <br />
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I shotfrom the rodeo dirt and focused my camera between the ring bars occasionally dodging hyper aggravated animals. I was so close I could hear the animals snort in Pain? Ecstasy? Revenge? Love? Death? I am not sure what they were feeling but they jumped and ran and kicked and screamed like beasts that had just been released from the gates of hell. <br />
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Tough cowboy Steve Woolsey, during the bareback bronc riding competition,
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  • DULUTH, GA - JAN 24, 2009: Thousands of people crowded into the Gwinnett Center for an evening of energized violence and brutality. The Toughest Cowboy competition had arrived. <br />
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I shot from the rodeo dirt and focused my camera between the ring bars occasionally dodging hyper aggravated animals. I was so close I could hear the animals snort in Pain? Ecstasy? Revenge? Love? Death? I am not sure what they were feeling but they jumped and ran and kicked and screamed like beasts that had just been released from the gates of hell. <br />
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The whole event seemed to teeter on epic disaster with batshit crazy horses running directly into fences at full speed and cowboys being thrown face first into the ground over and over again inside an arena of 5000 screaming people from the suburbs in cowboy hats and real cowboys from rural Georgia. It was insane, beautiful and chilling.<br />
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Tough cowboy Steve Woolsey from Payson, Utah, during the bull riding competition.
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  • DULUTH, GA - JAN 24, 2009: Thousands of people crowded into the Gwinnett Center for an evening of energized violence and brutality. The Toughest Cowboy competition had arrived. <br />
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I shot from the rodeo dirt and focused my camera between the ring bars occasionally dodging hyper aggravated animals. I was so close I could hear the animals snort in Pain? Ecstasy? Revenge? Love? Death? I am not sure what they were feeling but they jumped and ran and kicked and screamed like beasts that had just been released from the gates of hell. <br />
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The whole event seemed to teeter on epic disaster with batshit crazy horses running directly into fences at full speed and cowboys being thrown face first into the ground over and over again inside an arena of 5000 screaming people from the suburbs in cowboy hats and real cowboys from rural Georgia. It was insane, beautiful and chilling.<br />
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Dusty Elkinton from Moundville, Missouri, falls from his horse during the saddle bronc riding competition.
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  • Crowd at the FMLN victory celebration, March 15, 2009 at Masferrer Plaza in San Salvador, El Salvador.<br />
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Mauricio Funes of the FMLN party won the election becoming the first leftist president in El Salvador's history. The FMLN became a political<br />
party after the 1992 peace agreement which ended the 12 year civil war. Before the agreement the FMLN was a group of leftist guerrillas that fought the right wing government which received billions of dollars from the US and formed death squads responsible for tens of thousands of lost lives.
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  • Sept. 22: Activists Steve Woodall (left) and the Rev. Marvin L. Morgan are escorted from Gov. Sonny Perdue?s office after attempting to speak with the governor about the possible innocence of death row inmate Troy Davis.
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  • Sept. 18: Virginia Davis, mother of death row inmate Troy Davis, at a rally in her son's honor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, shortly before the first of two execution dates scheduled for Davis in 2008. Both executions were delayed after stays from the U.S. Supreme Court and 11th Circuit Court of Appeals..
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  • DULUTH, GA - JAN 24, 2009: Thousands of people crowded into the Gwinnett Center for an evening of energized violence and brutality. The Toughest Cowboy competition had arrived. <br />
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I shot from the rodeo dirt and focused my camera between the ring bars occasionally dodging hyper aggravated animals. I was so close I could hear the animals snort in Pain? Ecstasy? Revenge? Love? Death? I am not sure what they were feeling but they jumped and ran and kicked and screamed like beasts that had just been released from the gates of hell. <br />
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The whole event seemed to teeter on epic disaster with batshit crazy horses running directly into fences at full speed and cowboys being thrown face first into the ground over and over again inside an arena of 5000 screaming people from the suburbs in cowboy hats and real cowboys from rural Georgia. It was insane, beautiful and chilling.<br />
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Tough cowboy Charlie Barker tries to escape the bulls kick during the bull riding competition.
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  • June 26: Brilliant and tortured Texas singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston greets the audience at Variety Playhouse by telling a story of a dream he had about a man being sentenced to death for trying to commit suicide. In the back of the courtroom the man was saying, "No, no, no," Johnston tells the crowd. "And that man was me."
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  • Today, US combat forces pulled back from Baghdad and other cities in Iraq. The day was declared a national holiday in Iraq. Conservative estimates are that the US war in Iraq has caused between 100,000 and 200,000 civilian deaths. This photo is from a January 2003 protest in Washington D.C. against the war in Iraq.
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  • Advertisement for former general Norman Schwarzkopf speech in Memphis, Tennessee. Schwarzkopf led the first Iraq war which lead to the deaths of thousands of Iraqi's.
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  • A spirited group of demonstrators showed up at Woodruff Park on Oct. 22 to rally and march as part of the National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality. Organizers cited seven deaths in Georgia at the hands of police officers since March 2009 as a sign of the "epidemic of police brutality in Georgia" according to their press release.<br />
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Following the rally at Woodruff Park more than 50 protesters marched to the Atlanta Detention Center briefly shutting down one side of Peachtree Street. Outside the Detention Center a "speakout" was held. Some of the topics referenced by speakers outside the jail included the Kathryn Johnston murder, the Atlanta Eagle Raid and the need for an independent citizen police review board. As protesters spoke, cheers could be heard from prisoners inside the Detention Center.
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