Imagine the horror of being accused of a crime you maintain you didn't commit. Imagine then that, unlike The A-Team, you got caught and arrested for said crime. To make matters worse, the crime in question was the killing of a police officer (Mark Allen), and you were placed on Death Row, where you remain some 18 years later. That is the horrific situation in which Troy Davis finds himself. I guess the only solace for Davis would be in assuming that his life had reached its nadir. Imagine then, that you hear that some bell from Keane was coming to visit. Not even the fat one, who could probably at least be traded for some fags, but the drummer. Why? Well Richard Hughes is to visit Davis at the Diagnostic and Classification Prison in the US state of Georgia this Saturday on behalf of Amnesty International.

It is widely assumed that Davis has been the victim of a miscarriage of justice. The authorities have never been able to produce either a murder weapon or indeed any physical evidence. Indeed, seven of the nine witnesses later recanted or changed their initial testimonies in sworn affidavits. It is, I'm sure you'll agree, a truly noble mission. But still, the drummer from Keane?! I fully expect to be writing in a week's time about Davis being cleared of the murder of Allen, but charged instead with the murder of the drummer from Keane. We will then follow the trial very closely, right up until the jury accept Davis' claim that there were mitigating circumstances ("It's the drummer from Keane") and clear him of all charges. Which may just be Amnesty's plan all along.

Amnesty International has a petition for Troy Davis at: www.amnesty.org.uk/deathpenalty