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News Coverage & Commentary on the Troy Davis Order

By Steve Hall

Yesterday concurring comments by Justice Stevens is here; Justice Scalia?s dissent, here. "Supreme Court Orders New Look at Death Row Case," is the title of Adam Liptak's New York Times report.The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a federal trial court in Georgia to consider the case of Troy Davis, who is on death row in state prison there for the 1989 murder of an off-duty police officer. The case has attracted international attention, and 27 former prosecutors and judges had filed a brief supporting Mr. Davis. Seven of the witnesses against Mr. Davis have recanted, and several people have implicated the prosecution?s main witness as the actual killer of the officer, Mark MacPhail. The Supreme Court?s decision was unsigned, only a paragraph long and in a number of respects highly unusual...continue to full post

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