An execution warrant was signed Wednesday for Troy Anthony Davis, convicted in the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in a case that later saw seven witnesses against recant their testimony.
Davis is the second Chatham County murder convict to have an execution date set this week. On Tuesday, Jack Alderman was scheduled to die for the 1974 murder of his wife on Sept. 16.
The Department of Corrections says Davis is to be executed at 7 p.m. Sept. 23.
The warrant comes six months after the Georgia Supreme Court refused a request by Davis’s lawyers for a new trial.
Davis came within 23 hours of being executed in July 2007, but the state Board of Pardons and Paroles granted him a 90-day stay to give him time to ask the courts to reconsider his case in light of the recanted testimony.
In the meantime, death cases nationwide were effectively put on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of lethal injection, a question that has been resolved.
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Davis is the second Chatham County murder convict to have an execution date set this week. On Tuesday, Jack Alderman was scheduled to die for the 1974 murder of his wife on Sept. 16.
The Department of Corrections says Davis is to be executed at 7 p.m. Sept. 23.
The warrant comes six months after the Georgia Supreme Court refused a request by Davis’s lawyers for a new trial.
Davis came within 23 hours of being executed in July 2007, but the state Board of Pardons and Paroles granted him a 90-day stay to give him time to ask the courts to reconsider his case in light of the recanted testimony.
In the meantime, death cases nationwide were effectively put on hold while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of lethal injection, a question that has been resolved.
Find this article here.
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