It looks like the Supreme Court has yet to decide if they will hear the case of Troy Davis v. The State of Georgia. the court ordered an emergency stay of the execution on Sepember 23 less than two hours before the scheduled lethal injection to consider whether or not to hear the appeal. Troy Davis was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a police officer in Savannah. No physical evidence linked Davis to the killing, and of the nine witness testimonies used to convict, seven have been recanted, some citing police coercion. One of the two unrecanted testimonies comes from the lead alternate suspect. The other is from a man who first identified Troy Davis in the courtroom years after telling police on the night of the shooting that he "wouldn't recognize [the assailant or the two other men] again except for their clothes."
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