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Death Penalty Is Upheld in Publicized Georgia Case: New York Times writer Robbie Brown, reports that the Georgia parole board has denied clemency to Troy Davis, sentenced to death for the killing a Savannah police officer in 1989. Davis, 39, is scheduled to die by lethal injection in Jackson, Ga., on Sept. 23, unless the United States Supreme Court agrees to hear an appeal. Previous posts on this case are here and here. A jury in 1991 convicted Davis in the 1989 murder of Mark Allen MacPhail, an off-duty police officer moonlighting as a security guard who was shot to death while responding to a late-night fight at a Burger King in Savannah. Davis testified he was at a nearby pool hall and left before Officer MacPhail arrived. The defense claims that since the trial, seven key witnesses have recanted, saying they were bullied by investigators into lying under oath...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on September 15, 2008 (boomark / email).