Thousands attend funeral of Troy Davis, executed for a crime advocates say he did not commit

By Xeni Jardin at 12:31 pm Saturday, Oct 1

Many attending the memorial for Troy Davis in Savannah, Georgia, wore t-shirts that said I am Troy Davis. "Troy... told us to keep on fighting until his name is finally cleared and Georgia admits what Georgia has done," Benjamin Jealous, NAACP president, said at the service. "Troy's last words were to keep on fighting until the death penalty is abolished and this (execution) can never be done to anyone else."

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Ex-WikiLeaker Domscheit-Berg disputes claims of deleted files; Wikileaks dumps thousands of new leaks

Kim Zetter at Wired News spoke to Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former WikiLeaks spokesman reported to have recently destroyed thousands of unpublished documents submitted to Wikileaks last year.

"[He] says WikiLeaks is publicly exaggerating the contents of the deleted files, in an increasingly ugly dispute playing out over Twitter and in the press."

More: Former WikiLeaks Spokesman Disputes Claims About Destroyed Files

And related today, Wikileaks published thousands of new releases on Wikileaks.org.

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