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AJC: Troy Davis may be innocent

By "Persian Cowboy"

The following is Atlanta Journal-Constitution's editorial on Troy Davis' execution:Wednesday, September 24, 2008If Troy Anthony Davis had occupied a higher rung on the social ladder, he probably would not have been convicted of murder in the August 1989 shooting death of a Savannah police officer. If Davis were a doctor or lawyer or college professor, it?s unlikely police would have targeted him on the word of a small-time thug.But Davis isn?t a member of the tony set; he is neither educated nor affluent. He grew up in a tidy if modest neighborhood with a father who worked in law enforcement, but by adulthood, he had acquired a petty rap sheet. At the time of the tragic murder of police officer Mark Allen MacPhail, Davis was working for meager wages and looking for a better job...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).