PHILADELPHIA — In 2018, after spending 40 years incarcerated, Mike and Debbie Davis were ready to start living productive lives.
They moved in with their son, Mike Africa Jr., who hadn’t yet been born when the couple — then 22-year-old MOVE members Mike and Debbie Africa — were sentenced for the 1978 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
Debbie found a job as a cashier at ShopRite while Mike started working in maintenance at the Chester Housing Department. Within the year, the Davises married and moved into an apartment of their own. They spent a year caring for Debbie’s brother, Charles, another former MOVE member. He died of cancer in 2020…