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Shouldn't Innocence Matter?

By Steve Hall

That's the title of David Fathi's latest at Huffington Post.  LINK  He's the Director of the Human Rights Watch U.S. program. On August 17, the US Supreme Court ordered a lower federal court in Georgia to conduct a hearing in the case of Troy Anthony Davis. Davis has been on Georgia's death row for 18 years, sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer, Mark Allen MacPhail.The prosecution's case rested almost entirely on testimony from eyewitnesses, but seven of the nine who testified against Davis at his trial recanted and now say they are not sure who shot MacPhail. Three people now say that another man has confessed to the crime. However, because of strict rules limiting consideration of new evidence, no court has held a hearing on the evidence of Davis' innocence, and he has come within hours of execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 24, 2009 (boomark / email).