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World protests possible execution.(NEWS)
PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD--including Desmond Tutu and Pope Benedict XVI--have been decrying the possible execution of Troy Davis, a Black man who has spent the last 17 years on death row in Georgia. Despite new developments in his case, Davis has been scheduled to die three times in the last year alone. He was granted a third stay of execution in October, just three days before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
At the time of his original 1991 trial for the murder of a white policeman, the prosecution built their case on eyewitness testimony in the ...
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