Wednesday, September 21, 2011
just.Envee
Even with supporters including Pope Benedict, President Carter, and the former head of the FBI, Williams Sessions, death row inmate Troy Davis was denied clemency yesterday by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles. Since then, an online petition has generated over 1 million signatures in opposition of his execution by lethal injection which will take place tonight at 7pm.
This was the last chance that Troy had to save his life after spending a decade on death row for the 1989 murder of Mark MacPhail, an off-duty Savannah police officer who was shot outside of a Burger King. The police officer was shot in the heart and face after intervening on an argument between several men in a nearby parking lot. One of those men, implicated Troy Davis in the killing and he was arrested. During his 1991 trial, many witnesses testified that they had seen Troy Davis shoot the police officer but the murder weapon was never found and no physical evidence linked him to the crime. He was sentenced to death in August of 1991. Many appeals in State and Federal courts followed throughout the years with seven out of the original nine eyewitnesses recanting all or part of their story
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