A protester spreads out sheets collecting handprints and signatures during a rally to show support for death row inmate Troy Davis at the capitol in Atlanta.
A parole board in Georgia on Tuesday denied a last-ditch clemency appeal by Davis, who is set to be executed on Wednesday for the murder of a police officer in a case that has attracted international attention. His case has became a focus for death penalty opponents because seven of nine trial witnesses have recanted their testimony against him, prompting supporters to say he may be innocent.
Davis was convicted of the 1989 killing of police officer Mark MacPhail near a Burger King restaurant in the city of Savannah along the Atlantic coast of the southern U.S. state. REUTERS
Source: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/latest/11137-support-for-death-row-inmate.html
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