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"Innocence claim rejected: Troy Davis loses challenge"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the title of this terrific synopsis by Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog of a big death penalty ruling handed down today.  Here is the start of the post along with links to the looong ruling the post discusses: Carrying out a direct order of the Supreme Court, a federal judge in Georgia made a lengthy new study of a 21-year-old murder case but then ruled Tuesday that a Savannah, Ga., man had not proved that he is innocent of killing a police officer in a fast-food restaurant parking lot.   In a 172-page opinion (issued in two parts, found here and here), U.S. District Judge William T. Moore, Jr., ruled that it would be unconstitutional to execute an innocent person, but went on to rule that Troy Anthony Davis ?is not innocent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 24, 2010 (boomark / email).