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URGENT ACTION APPEAL - Troy Davis

URGENT ACTION APPEAL - From Amnesty International USA09 September 2008UA 250/08 Death penalty / Legal concernUSA (Georgia) Troy Anthony Davis (m), black, aged 40Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia at 7pm local time on 23September. He has been on death row for 17 years for a murder he maintainshe did not commit. He has a clemency hearing before the state Board ofPardons and Paroles on 12 September. It is not known when the Board willmake its decision.On 28 August 1991 Troy Davis was convicted of the murder of 27-year-oldOfficer Mark Allen MacPhail, white, who was shot and killed in the carpark of a Burger King restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, in the early hoursof 19 August 1989. Davis was also convicted of assaulting Larry Young, ahomeless man, who was accosted immediately before Officer MacPhail wasshot...continue to full post

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