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Coverage of the Troy Davis Hearing in Georgia

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"Davis case draws big crowd, tough arguments," is the report by Alyson Palmer for Law.com's Fulton County Daily Report.Judges of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday probed the circumstances under which an innocent person sentenced to death can have his claims reviewed, but they offered no specific hope for the man claiming to be in that exact situation.Troy Anthony Davis' claims of innocence have delayed his previously scheduled execution for killing a Savannah police officer in 1989. His lawyers have said seven of the nine trial witnesses for the prosecution have recanted their testimony and cited affidavits from other witnesses saying another prosecution witness, Sylvester Coles, had confessed to the crime. Davis' request for permission to file a second federal habeas petition may be his last chance to avoid lethal injection...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).