USA: Georgia Supreme Court upholds Troy Davis death sentence despite innocence concerns

رقم الوثيقة: AMR 51/022/2008
تاريخ النشر: 17 مارس 2008
التصنيفات: الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية

Amnesty International regrets that on 17 March 2008, the Georgia Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, denied death row inmate Troy Davis a new trial or an evidentiary hearing on post-conviction evidence of innocence. He has been on death row for more than 16 years for the murder of a police officer which he maintains he did not commit. Many of the witnesses presented by the prosecution at the trial have since recanted or contradicted their testimony.