After Got Delayed, Georgia Finally Dead Execution of Troy Davis

The state of Georgia in the U.S. eventually execute Troy Davis to death after the Supreme Court rejected a final plea that death row inmates. Davis case is the international attention because of claims from the advocate that he might not be guilty of the charge against him the case.
Davis lethal injection at 23:08 am local time or 03:08 GMT, Thursday (22 / 9), in prison in Middle Georgia for murder with a police officer in 1989, said police spokesman Christian Stancil. The execution had been delayed for over four hours while the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether to issue a suspension.

The case has sparked protests and an online petition reached nearly one million signatures because of doubts about whether he really killed police officer Mark MacPhail in 1989.


MacPhail was shot dead outside the Burger King restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, when he tried to help a homeless man was beaten. MacPhail family said Davis guilty and his son witnessed the killings.

Since Davis's sentence, seven of nine witnesses changed their testimony, some say the police were forced to testify against the suspects and some say others do the killing, not him.

No physical evidence linking Davis to the murder.

"The incident that night was not my fault. I do not carry weapons," said Davis, as reported by Rhonda Cook from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper.

"I personally did not kill the son, father and your brother. I am not guilty," continued Cook cites Davis to the MacPhail family members present at the execution chamber.

Hundreds of people outside the prison before demonstrations Georgia Diagnostic and Classification. They chanted the slogan "I am Troy Davis and other slogans and cheering happily had burst after it reportedly postponed the execution.