Repost: On the Twelfth Anniversary Of Troy Davis' Execution
Originally Published at the The Harvard Law and Policy Review
First Published September 19 , 2011
Troy Davis’s two decade legal odyssey beginning with his 1989 arrest for the murder of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail reaches its climax at today’s final clemency hearing, the last stop before his execution on Wednesday, September 21st in a Georgia execution chamber. If the execution proceeds, Mr. Davis’s…