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Breaking: TROY DAVIS EXECUTED
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UPDATE: LIVE VIDEO STREAM - DEMOCRACY NOW OUTSIDE THE JAIL:
[link to www.livestream.com]
TIME OF DEATH 11:08PM
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[link to www.vancouversun.com]
The execution is planned for 7pm edt Wednesday, Sept. 21
From [link to www.cbc.ca]
"Davis was convicted of killing a police officer in 1989, but since the original trial, seven of nine non-police witnesses recanted their testimony, and no physical evidence linked him to the crime.
One of the jurors from the original trial, Brenda Forrest, swore an affidavit on September 12 stating that new evidence and altered testimonies changed her opinion on Davis' guilty verdict: "I feel, emphatically, that Mr. Davis cannot be executed under these circumstances...to execute Mr. Davis in light of this evidence and testimony would be an injustice to the victim's family [and] to the jury who sentenced Mr. Davis."
Amnesty International issued a statement earlier today: "It is unconscionable that the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles has denied relief to Troy Davis. Allowing a man to be sent to death under an enormous cloud of doubt about his guilt is an outrageous affront to justice."
That cloud of doubt doesn't extend to everybody; the mother of the police officer who was killed in 1989, Anne MacPhail, told CNN: "Well, justice is done, that's the way we look at it. That's what we wanted," she said. "I am very convinced that he is guilty."
ACLU Lens: Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole Denies Clemency to Troy Davis Despite Serious Doubts About his Guilt
From [link to www.aclu.org]
Calling yesterday's clemency hearing "a sham," Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union said\
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