Georgia Pardons Board Denies Clemency for Death Row Inmate — Troy Davis

[Mira]

Georgia Pardons Board Denies Clemency for Death Row Inmate

ATLANTA — Troy Davis, whose death-row case ignited an international campaign to save his life, has lost what appeared to be his last attempt to avoid death by lethal injection on Wednesday.

Rejecting pleas by Mr. Davis’s lawyers that shaky witness testimony and a lack of physical evidence presented enough doubt about his guilt to spare him death, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles ruled on Tuesday morning that Mr. Davis, 42, should die for killing Mark MacPhail, an off-duty police officer, in a Savannah parking lot in 1989.
“He has had ample time to prove his innocence, and he is not innocent,” said Mr. MacPhail’s widow, Joan MacPhail-Harris. “We have laws in this land so that there is not chaos. We are not killing Troy because we want to. We’re trying to execute him because he was punished.”
for the rest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/21/us/troy-davis-is-denied-clemency-in-georgia.html?emc=n

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. The death penalty isn't punishment tho. It's an easy way out.

[tblue]

2. HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!

So freaking sad!!!

[duhneece]

3. Oh, God, no

I just tried to phone the Ga Gov to ask for clemency before I read this in the article, "...Because Georgia’s governor has no power to stay executions, the parole board was the last hope for Mr. Davis..."

I am devastated.