Kamau Sadiki was a teenage Black Panther in 1971. He spent the next 31 years a free man, working as a Bell South lineman in Atlanta. In 2002 — after he refused to assist the FBI's pursuit of his former comrade Assata Shakur — Georgia revived a dormant 1971 cold case and convicted him of the killing of an Atlanta police officer.

He has now served more than 22 years on a 60-year Georgia sentence. He suffers from advanced sarcoidosis (a chronic inflammatory lung disease), hepatitis C, and chronic kidney disease that has produced extended hospitalizations.

We ask the Governor of Georgia and the Board of Pardons and Paroles for compassionate medical clemency — the relief reserved precisely for cases where continued incarceration is incompatible with the prisoner's survival.