Troy Davis asks Supreme Court to stop execution

[Kennah]

Source: AJC

JACKSON, Ga. — Troy Davis, the condemned inmate who convinced hundreds of thousands of people but not the justice system of his innocence, filed an eleventh-hour plea Wednesday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Georgia authorities from executing him for the murder of an off-duty police officer.

Though Davis' attorneys say seven of nine key witnesses against him have disputed all or parts of their testimony, state and federal judges have repeatedly ruled against granting him a new trial. As the court losses piled up Wednesday, his offer to take a polygraph test was rejected and the pardons board refused to give him one more hearing.

Davis' supporters tried increasingly frenzied measures, urging prison workers to stay home and even posting a judge's phone number online, hoping people will press him to put a stop to the 7 p.m. lethal injection. But mostly, they declared "I am Troy Davis" on signs, T-shirts and the Internet, hoping to sway authorities.

"They say death row; we say hell no!" a crowd of about 200 chanted outside the Jackson prison where Davis was to be executed. About 10 counterdemonstrators also were there, showing support for the death penalty and the family of Mark MacPhail, the man Davis was convicted of killing in 1989.

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Is Troy Davis going to be David Gale or Cameron Todd Willingham?

[Ian David]

1. Supreme Court now reconsidering #TroyDavis case. Execution delayed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5001701

[blackspade]

2. Sweet!