By Laura Moye, AIUSA Death Penalty Abolition Campaign Director

Our friend and fellow warrior for human rights, Martina Davis Correia, passed away on December 1 in Savannah, Georgia, while I stood near her hospital bed along with family and friends. She died peacefully after a painful struggle following liver failure caused by a decade’s worth of cancer treatments. Martina changed us, and she changed our world. She spoke truth to power in the way that a prophet does: bringing a timely message out of the margins and to the masses with conviction and graceful clarity.

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