(AP) The pastor who will deliver the eulogy for Georgia death-row inmate Troy Davis says he believes Davis' funeral should be seen as a national wake-up call to abolish the death
penalty much like the 1955 lynching of teenager Emmett Till shocked
Americans into confronting the brutality of Jim Crow.
Davis' family is opening his Savannah funeral Saturday to the
public following his execution last week.
In an interview Friday, the Rev. Raphael Warnock of Atlanta's
Ebenezer Baptist Church compared Davis' funeral to that of Till, a
14-year-old boy who was killed by white men in Mississippi for
speaking to a white woman. Till's mother insisted on an open-casket
funeral so the world could see her son's mutilated body. The
lynching was an early flashpoint in the civil rights movement.
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