Justices delay decision on Georgia death row inmate’s appeal (Troy Davis)

Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Supreme Court has put off a decision on accepting an appeal from a Georgia death row inmate who has gained international support for his claims of innocence in the the murder of a Savannah police officer two decades ago.

The justices were scheduled to announce Monday whether they would take the case of Troy Davis, but no order was released. The court is expected to take up the matter again in September.

Davis had been granted a stay of execution by the Supreme Court two hours before he was to be put to death last fall. A month later the justices reversed course and allowed the capital punishment to proceed, but a federal appeals court issued another stay. The high court’s latest delay means Davis will continue to sit on death row.

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the world is watching pres. obama

kind of sucks to try to pin it on Obama doncha think?

It might be better to say "The World is watching Mr. Perdue"

obama is for the death penalty and just told iran the world is watching, what makes the u.s. so moral, to most of the world we are barbaric.

and can snap his fingers and everything wrong with the U.S. is insrantly overturned? Superman extraordinaire he is ! :sarcasm:

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Having said that I do hope my state, Georgia, does the correct thing here...I think 7 of 9 witnesses have since retracted their testimony and said they were forced by the prosecution.

I have long been embarrassed for my state's history and I hope this is not yet another reason to hide the fact I was born here.

offenses against the United States. He has no such authority when it involves state or local laws.

people on this page who blame Obama for everything THIS IS A STATE DEATH PENTLY CASE. THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO TAKE ACTION

The POTUS can:

1) Pressure the Governor of GA to grant clemency; or 2), Grant Clemency by executive order. I doubt he'll do either, but I would stand up and cheer if he did. I mean the likelihood of actual innocence should be serve as a bar to execution ... regardless of what the SCOTUS says.:mad:

Have any of you all read Conviction by Richard North Patterson? In a similar vein to this actual case an innocent man in the novel is executed because he had used up all his appeals by the time his innocence was definitively pronounced.

You need the Governor to pardon offenses against state law. But it evens out in the long run - Governors can't pardon federal offenses like counterfeiting, bank robbery and kidnapping across state lines.

And in Texas, the Governor can't pardon an offense or even commute a sentence without a recommendation from the parole board.