Post by Anja Nieser on Oct 1, 2006 5:58:36 GMT -5
Death-row appeal from inmate denied
The federal appeals court in Atlanta has denied an appeal from a death-row
inmate convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989.
A 3-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on
Tuesday unanimously rejected Troy Anthony Davis bid to overturn his
conviction based on new testimony.
Since the trial, several prosecution witnesses who implicated or named
Davis as the killer have renounced much of the testimony used to convict
him.
Davis was condemned to die in 1991 for killing 27-year-old Officer Mark
Allen MacPhail, who responded to a melee outside a Savannah bus station
where he was shot repeatedly at close range.
(source: Atlanta Journal Constitution)
The federal appeals court in Atlanta has denied an appeal from a death-row
inmate convicted of killing a Savannah police officer in 1989.
A 3-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on
Tuesday unanimously rejected Troy Anthony Davis bid to overturn his
conviction based on new testimony.
Since the trial, several prosecution witnesses who implicated or named
Davis as the killer have renounced much of the testimony used to convict
him.
Davis was condemned to die in 1991 for killing 27-year-old Officer Mark
Allen MacPhail, who responded to a melee outside a Savannah bus station
where he was shot repeatedly at close range.
(source: Atlanta Journal Constitution)