Amy Goodman
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Troy Davis Set To Be Executed On Wednesday After Georgia Pardons Board Denies Clemency
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September 20, 2011
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10:13Now Playingwww.DemocracyNow.org - Shortly before the Democracy Now! live broadcast ended on Sept. 20, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles announced it rejected clemency for Troy Anthony Davis. The Board has the sole authority to stay the execution under Georgia state law. Davis is now set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Davis was convicted for the 1989 killing of an off-duty white police officer. Since then, seven of the nine non-police witnesses have recanted their testimony, and there is no physical evidence tying Davis to the crime scene. Amnesty International, the NAACP and numerous other groups have called for clemency. Former FBI Director William Sessions is among those calling for a closer examination of whether Davis is guilty, joining a list that includes Pope Benedict XVI, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the Archbishop Desmond Tutu. We speak with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader and founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, who has been a vocal supporter of the campaign to spare Davis's life. Democracy Now! also speaks with Mary Schmid Mergler, senior counsel for the Constitution Project's Criminal Justice Program, who assembled statements from a former Georgia Supreme Court Justice, congressman and prosecutors — as well as a former Texas governor, who urged the Supreme Court, and now the Georgia pardons board, to halt Davis' execution and commute his death sentence to life in prison.
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