Troy Davis is set to be executed by injection at 7pm ET on Wednesday for the 1989 killing of Mark MacPhail, an off-duty police officer who was working as a security guard in Savannah when he was shot dead rushing to help a homeless man who had been attacked.
Some witnesses who testified against him at trial later recanted, and others who did not testify came forward to say another man did it. But a federal judge dismissed those accounts as "largely smoke and mirrors" after a hearing Davis was granted last year to argue for a new trial, which he did not win.
The case was discussed in a debate about the death penalty organised by the Council of Europe on October 10 2008 in Strasbourg. The message was provided by Amnesty International.
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