21837425 In the U.S., carried out four times a pending death sentence
The authorities of Georgia have led to the sentence the convict to death an American Troy Davis (Troy Davis), who 20 years protested his innocence, according to Agence France-Presse. Davis was introduced by lethal injection. Doctors pronounced his death on Wednesday, September 21 at 23:08 local time. Davis to be executed a few hours earlier, but shortly before the alleged execution of a convicted person has filed a U.S. Supreme Court a petition to set aside a conviction. After more than four hours it became known that the court rejected the plea for clemency. Troy Davis was convicted of killing a policeman Mark Makfeyla (Mark MacPhail), committed in 1989 and sentenced to death in 1991. Protection urged for reconsideration, noting that seven of the nine witnesses for the prosecution or changed their testimony, or abandoned them. In 2007 and twice in 2008, Davis has set the dates of execution, but the dates postponed, including one in less than two hours before enforcing a sentence. Davis spoke against the execution, in particular, Pope Benedict XVI and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
