Despite seven of the nine witnesses recanting their testimony, a lack of forensic evidence, and Davis maintaining his innocence on this date Georgia executes Troy Davis. Amnesty International, the Innocence Project, and countless advocates offline and offline had been working to stop the execution. Twitter recorded 7671 tweets per second in the moments before Davis’ execution, making it the second most active Twitter event in 2011. Read more in the Forward of #HashtagActivism from Genie Lauren about how she became involved in Davis’ case through Twitter.