NEWS FLASH
Supreme Court Denies Stay of Execution To Troy Davis | The Supreme Court has denied a stay of execution to Troy Davis. Davis was convicted of murder and sentenced to die almost two decades ago. Since then, seven of the witnesses against him have recanted their testimony, and some have even implicated Sylvester “Redd” Coles, a witness who testified that Davis was the shooter.
Update
Democracy Now reports that Davis has been killed. The time of death was 11:08.
Previous in TP Justice
By clicking and submitting a comment I acknowledge the ThinkProgress Privacy Policy and agree to the ThinkProgress Terms of Use. I understand that my comments are also being governed by Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policies as applicable, which can be found here.