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NAACP top exec says cop-killer conviction was built on 'lies'

Jan Skutch | Morris News ServiceFriday, June 19, 2009 8:42 a.m.SAVANNAH -- If the conviction of Troy Anthony Davis and his subsequent death sentencing resulted from "lies," then a "cop killer" has remained at large for 18 years, the top executive of the national NAACP says.That is what occurred, asserted Benjamin Jealous, president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and it demands that Chatham County District Attorney Larry Chisolm reopen the case."The interest of the state is in the truth," he told the Savannah Morning News in an interview.Jealous was in Savannah Friday as part of "I AM TROY," a grassroots campaign and petition drive to spare Davis from execution at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison near Jackson...continue to full post

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