Parole board says it won't reconsider execution.
Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of killing an off-duty police officer in 1989, is to be executed Oct. 27. The date was set after a Chatham County judge signed a warrant Wednesday afternoon setting the time frame from Oct. 27 through Nov. 3 for the execution.
This is Davis 3rd execution date in little more than a year.
Last month, just 2 hours before he was to die by lethal injection, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped his execution so it could decide if it would hear Davis challenge based on the recantations of seven of the nine witnesses who testified against him.
On Tuesday, the court without explanation refused to hear the appeal.
Davis was condemned to die for the Aug. 19, 1989 killing of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. The 27-year-old father of 2 was working off duty when he was shot in the parking lot of a Burger King restaurant.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Troy Anthony Davis, convicted of killing an off-duty police officer in 1989, is to be executed Oct. 27. The date was set after a Chatham County judge signed a warrant Wednesday afternoon setting the time frame from Oct. 27 through Nov. 3 for the execution.
This is Davis 3rd execution date in little more than a year.
Last month, just 2 hours before he was to die by lethal injection, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped his execution so it could decide if it would hear Davis challenge based on the recantations of seven of the nine witnesses who testified against him.
On Tuesday, the court without explanation refused to hear the appeal.
Davis was condemned to die for the Aug. 19, 1989 killing of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. The 27-year-old father of 2 was working off duty when he was shot in the parking lot of a Burger King restaurant.
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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