New hearing ordered in high-profile US death row case

New hearing ordered in high-profile US death row case
AFP/GDC-HO/File – The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered that Troy Davis, a high-profile death row inmate

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered that Troy Davis, a high-profile death row inmate, should receive a new hearing to determine whether evidence not available at his trial could prove him innocent.
"The district court should receive testimony and make findings of fact as to whether evidence that could have been obtained at the time of the trial clearly establishes petitioner's innocence," the court said.
Davis, who is black, was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Mark Allen MacPhail, a white policeman, in Savannah, Georgia. He has always proclaimed his innocence.
The weapon used in the murder was never found, and neither DNA nor fingerprints implicated Davis in the crime.
In 1981, nine witnesses testified against him, but seven of them have said that they were pressured by police to incriminate Davis.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090817/pl_afp/usjusticeexecution



Let's hope this is a sign that the brutality of capital punishment kept in place by
our rw Supremes may be about to end . . . ??????

Thank you for posting it.

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is irrelevant.

they did so under threat by police!!!

You'd think that would be a walk?