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Georgia Sets Execution Date for Troy Davis

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The controversial case is set to return to the public spotlight with the setting of an execution date.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, "Davis execution scheduled; 7 witnesses have recanted."A convicted cop killer who witnesses now say maybe didn?t do it was scheduled Wednesday to be executed later this month for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark Allen McPhail. Troy Anthony Davis stands to be the 21st person to die by lethal injection, on Sept. 23, assuming the state carries out the planned execution of Jack Alderman one week earlier. Alderman?s execution date of Sept. 16 was set Tuesday for the 1974 murder of his wife, also in Chatham County. While both Alderman?s and Davis? cases are controversial, Davis? carries with it questions of guilt that have already raised concerns among the members of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).