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Troy Anthony Davis

August 1991

August 19, 1989

June 2010

September 21, 2011

  • An off duty officer was shot and killed
  • Mark MacPhail intervened in an argument between 2 men in a parking lot
  • Savannah, Georgia
  • Evidentiary hearing before federal district court
  • 7 of 9 witnesses recant their testimony
  • Police coercion in the case
  • Federal district court upholds the conviction
  • March, the supreme court rejects Davis appeal
  • Execution scheduled for 7pm
  • Davis was executed at 11:08 that night
  • Troy Anthony Davis continued to speak clear about his innocence
  • He addressed the MacPhail family

  • Davis is on trail for the murder of Mark MacPhail
  • Several eyewitness place Davis at the scene of the murder
  • 2 confessed Davis was the killer
  • Among the 2 is Coles
  • No weapon found
  • No physical evidence
  • August 30 1991 Davis is convicted of murder

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1991

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2007

2011

1989

September 17,2011

July 17, 2007 & September 2008

August 23, 1989

  • One of the men involved in the argument reports that Troy Davis was the shooter to the police department
  • Davis was arrested
  • First Scheduled execution date was stayed after appeals
  • Second scheduled execution date was stayed after statements from Amnesty International
  • The Supreme Court permitted the high court to determine whether to hear the case
  • October 27Th 2008 scheduled execution date
  • Amnesty International send out a call for signatures on a new petition
  • More than 600,000 on the 19Th, Clemency hearing Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • Clemency denied on the 20th

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