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15 Dec 2015, 8:48 am
 Jimmy OlsenUpdates three and four: NEWS. [read post]
17 Oct 2017, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
On this day in 1978, President Jimmy Carter officially restored the full citizenship rights of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis, signing an act from Congress that ended a century-long dispute. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 8:02 am by Steve Hall
Former President Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI have said Davis should not be executed. [read post]
16 Oct 2008, 6:01 am
You know it's desperation time for McCain when Victor Davis Hanson plays the Jimmy Carter card against Obama: A great many moderates and conservatives are worn out and tired of Bush and Bush hatred, the European furor, serial charges of racism and illiberalism, and finally, in their weariness, think that Obama will, in a variety of ways, just make all the ickiness go away-as if he will make all of us be liked abroad and end racial and red/blue fighting at home. [read post]
16 Oct 2003, 5:01 pm
On October 17, 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill retroactively restoring the US citizenship of Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, US Senator from Mississippi and US Secretary of War in the administration of President Franklin Pierce. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 7:30 pm by Steve Hall
The filing by Davis' lawyers came after state officials refused to grant Davis a reprieve in the face of calls for clemency from former President Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict XVI and others. [read post]
27 Jun 2019, 7:34 am by Neal Davis
” Co-hosted by attorneys Jimmy Ardoin and Julio Vela, the program also addressed defendants’ constitutional rights. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 10:22 am by Steve Hall
Among them, former President Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict XVI, former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher and former FBI Director William Sessions say Davis should be granted clemency. [read post]
7 Jul 2009, 10:12 pm
What do Jimmy Carter, William Sessions, Pope Benedict XVI, Bob Barr, Desmond Tutu, and TalkLeft all have in common? [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 8:50 am by Steve Hall
Davis arrived shortly before 7 a.m., accompanied by an armed escort of Chatham County police officers.Vigils and rallies were held Tuesday night in Savannah and Atlanta on behalf of Davis and slain Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail.Davis' innocence claims have attracted international attention, including former President Jimmy Carter and Pope Benedict XVI urging that he be spared from execution. [read post]
3 Jul 2009, 12:36 pm
Davis, a former coach, is viewed to be innocent by a broad coalition of including former President Jimmy Carter, the Vatican, Amnesty International, former FBI head William Sessions and conservative Bob Barr. [read post]
12 Sep 2011, 5:11 pm by Joseph McClelland
 Former President and Georgia hero Jimmy Carter has also weighed in on behalf of Mr. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 8:38 am
Seven of the nine witnesses who identified Davis as the shooter have since recanted their testimony in sworn affidavits. [read post]
7 Sep 2011, 8:44 am by Steve Hall
Following an “evidentiary hearing” last summer, a former FBI director William Sessions renewed his support for the inmate, and Nobel laureates Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Jose Ramos Horta have recently appealed to the board for clemency Earlier coverage of the Troy Davis case begins at the link. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 7:28 am by Nathan Koppel
Davis’s many supporters (including the NAACP, Pope Benedict XVI and Jimmy Carter) have argued against the conviction, claiming too many questions have been raised about whether he committed the crime. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 8:19 am by Steve Hall
Former President Jimmy Carter said in a statement to The Associated Press on Thursday he hopes Davis' execution "will spur us as a nation toward the total rejection of capital punishment. [read post]
22 Sep 2008, 9:02 pm
Pardons and Parole Board spokeswoman Scheree Lipscomb said she does not expect any last-minute clemency for Davis, whose supporters include former President Jimmy Carter. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 6:05 am by Bill Otis
  We've heard again and again about the Pope, Bob Barr and the ever fatuous Jimmy Carter, but precious little about what actually happened. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 8:15 am
John Denvir's latest post from Guile Is Good: this one on Better Call Saul's Jimmy McGill and signs that his tenure at Davis & Main demonstrates some real ethical challenges. [read post]