Execution date for (maybe) innocent man
September 3, 2008 at 1:41 pm by Mara Shalhoup in News
Troy Anthony Davis, a convicted cop killer from Savannah who’s been on death row for 17 years, is scheduled for execution Sept. 23 — despite a parade of witnesses who’ve recanted most of the testimony that incriminated him.
AJC.com reports on the execution date, though the story fails to mention that the state Board of Pardons and Parole basically has been waiting for Davis’s execution date to be set so that it can rule on whether to allow it. Already, the board indicated in a statement issued earlier this year that Davis’s death sentence is troubling:
“The members of the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles will not allow an execution to proceed in this State unless and until its members are convinced that there is no doubt as to the guilt of the accused.”
Plus, if the board commuted this guy’s death sentence, it would be a travesty to allow Davis’s execution. Then again, the board did let this guy die.
(Photo courtesy of Department of Corrections)
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