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Troy Davis

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"Death row's revolving door: Courts mull post-trial proof," is Kevin Johnson's USA Today report examining the controversial Georgia case of Troy Davis.The timeline of TroyDavis' 18 years on death row reads like most other condemned prisoners' slow shuffle to the execution chamber. His appeals chart a legal marathon from a courtroom in Savannah, Ga., to the U.S. Supreme Court. The execution date for Davis, convicted of killing a police officer, has been set three times ? and three times the courts or Georgia officials have granted extensions. What doesn't exist in the docket entries or trial transcripts is a formal airing of evidence discovered after Davis' conviction that, his lawyers say, could win his freedom...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 18, 2009 (boomark / email).