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Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis now gets no review or relief from SCOTUS

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP report, which is headlined "High court rejects appeal from Troy Davis," this morning the US Supreme Court "has rejected an appeal from Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis, clearing the way for the state to resume planning for Davis' execution."  As regular readers may recall, SCOTUS in 2009 ordered a district judge to conduce hearings to consider Davis' evidence suggesting his innocence for the 1989 murder that got him placed on Georgia's death row.  But the district judge was not convinced, and this order list from the Supreme Court shows that the Justices today rebuffed three different means by which Davis was seeking high court review.  Especially notable here, I think, is that it does not appear that there were any dissents from the decision to refuse Davis any more review...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).