USA - Georgia. Troy Davis was celebrated by more than 1,000 people at his funeral

Troy Davis was celebrated as "martyr and foot soldier" Saturday by more than 1,000 people who packed the pews at his funeral and pledged to keep fighting the death penalty. Family, activists and supporters filled Savannah's Jonesville Baptist Church on Saturday. Benjamin Todd Jealous, national president of the NAACP, brought the crowd to its feet in a chant of "I am Troy Davis" — the slogan supporters used to paint Davis as an everyman forced to face the executioner by a faulty justice system. Jealous noted that Davis professed his innocence even in his final words. "Troy's last words that night were he told us to keep fighting until his name is cleared in Georgia," Jealous said. "But most important, keep fighting until the death penalty is abolished and this can never be done to anyone else." "He transformed a prison sentence into a pulpit," the Rev. Raphael Warnock, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, said in his eulogy Saturday. "He turned death row into a sanctuary." Warnock's congregation at Ebenezer, the church where Martin Luther King once preached, helped raise money for the 3 ½ hour service. Amnesty International U.S. director, Larry Cox, spoke from behind Davis' casket Saturday urging those who fought to spare his life not to give up until America ends its use of the death penalty.