In a blog entry at Your Black World, Dr. Boyce Watkins weighs in on the Troy Davis case, saying that the criminal-justice system has never been a friend to black males. He highlights how the deck was ...

The U.S. death penalty system is a failed government program unworthy of a people that cherish fairness and justice. If we needed any further proof of this fact, the Troy Davis case seals the deal. On ...

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Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection 7 p.m. EDT tonight. His attorneys are filing a desperate last-minute appeal. Davis’ attorney, Brian Kammer, told the ...

In 1991, seven black and five white jurors convicted Troy Davis of murder in the shooting death of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis sat on Georgia’s deathrow for 20 years. Leading up to ...

Late last week, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Troy Davis’s petition for a hearing to prove his innocence. Although seven of the nine non-police witnesses against him have recanted or ...

Democracy Now! reports on the case of Georgia death row prisoner Troy Davis. Davis was convicted in 1989 of killing of off-duty white police officer, Mark MacPhail. Since then, seven of the nine ...

JACKSON, GA (WTOC) - Troy Davis was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m. Wednesday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga. Davis was found guilty ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. AP - Death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis got another legal break Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court recessed for summer without acting on his latest appeal, likely delaying any ...

ATLANTA - Georgia's board of pardons board says it considered "the totality of the information presented" in deciding to deny clemency to high-profile death row inmate Troy Davis. The five-person ...