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Will President Obama soon have to confront the Troy Davis case?

By Douglas A. Berman

This blog post from a UK paper, titled "Why President Obama should have Georgia on his mind," flags an issue I have been thinking about recently.  Here is how the post begins: Unlike presidents Bush and Clinton, there's one potentially controversial issue in the United States that has yet to seriously trouble President Obama -- the death penalty.  That could be about to change. A death row prisoner with a particularly strong claim that he was wrongly convicted could be just weeks away from execution.  Would the president stand by and let that happen?  It might be difficult for him if he did.  Here's why. The case in question is that of Troy Davis, a 40-year-old man who has been on death row in the state of Georgia since 1991.  On Saturday his "stay" of execution was lifted leaving it open to state officials to set an execution date...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 19, 2009 (boomark / email).