Ga Executes Davis, Supporters Argue, Injustice

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) - linked to the death chamber gurney, Georgia, Troy Davis, looked up and said the last time, he did not kill Mark MacPhail police. A few meters away from the rear window, MacPhail's son, and brother watched in silence.

Outside the prison, a crowd of more than 500 protesters shouted, hugged, prayed and held candles. Representing hundreds of thousands of fans around the world who have made the case against the death penalty to the last day of the Davis scored away.

"I am innocent," Davis said moments before he was executed Wednesday night. "All I can ask ... is that you look deeper into this case, if you really can finally see the truth. I ask my family and friends to continue to lead this fight."

Prosecutors and MacPhail's family said justice was finally served.

"I kind of sensitivity. I can not believe it really happened," MacPhail mother, Anneliese MacPhail to, said in a telephone interview from his home in Columbus, Georgia "All the feelings of relief and peace of mind I've waited all these years , will come later. I really do not want peace. "

Rejected claims that the innocence of Davis.

"He said that for 22 years. You know what it is, you can talk about anything."

Davis was scheduled to die in 19 hours, but the time came and went to the U.S. Supreme Court appears to weigh the case. More than three hours later, the high court said it would not intervene. The judges did not comment on the order rejecting the request for suspension of Davis.

Hundreds of thousands of people signed petitions in the name of Davis, and was a prominent supporters. His law firm said seven of nine key witnesses against him, denied in whole or in part, the witness, but state and federal judges consistently condemned him - three times on Wednesday alone.

Widow MacPhail Director, Joan MacPhail, Harris said he was "a time of healing for all families."

"I am saddened by the Davis family, because now they are going to understand our pain and our hurt," he said in a telephone interview with Jackson. "My prayers go out to them. I pray for all these years. And I pray there will be some peace for them along the way."

Davis supporters organized vigils in the United States and Europe, saying "I am Troy Davis" on signs, T-shirts and the Internet. Some measures have been trying ever more frantic, urging workers to stay at home and even jail for online posting a judge, the phone number of people hoping to press to stop the lethal injection. Barack Obama President to forward calls to him to participate.

"They say death row, we say hell no!" protesters shouted outside the prison in Jackson before Davis was executed. In Washington, the crowd chanted before the Supreme Court the same song.

As much as 700 protesters gathered outside the prison as a riot police a few dozen stood guard, but the crowd thinned as the night wore on, and the result was clear.

The execution of Davis was arrested three times since 2007. The Supreme Court of US Davis even gave a rare opportunity to prove his innocence before a lower court last year. While the country's Supreme Court will not hear the case, they set a standard difficult for Davis to clear himself, said his lawyers have "clear" the innocence of Davis - the bar to meet to prosecutors having to prove guilt. After the hearing, a judge ruled in favor of the lower court for the prosecution and the judges did not take the case.

His lawyer, Stephen Marsh said Davis had spent part of Wednesday to undergo a polygraph test if officials had taken forgive his offer seriously. But they said they would not reverse their decision. Georgia Governor has no power to grant pardons to convicted prisoners.

As his last hours strung, shot an optimistic and prayerful Davis refused an offer of a special meal this year, when he met with friends, family and fans.

"Troy Davis, has influenced the world," his sister, Martina Correia, said before his execution. "They say: 'I am Troy Davis' languages, can not speak."

Davis' family members who witnessed the execution left without speaking to reporters.

Davis supporters including former President Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict XVI, former FBI director, the NAACP, several personalities and many prominent conservatives, including hip-hop star Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.

"I try to put words to the young: there are too many doubts," the rapper Big Boi, Outkast group based in Atlanta, said in a church near the prison.

At a rally in Paris led many signs about 150 protesters bearing the face of Davis. "Anyone who looks at the issue knows that there is probably too to execute," Nicolas Krameyer Amnesty International said in protest.

Davis was convicted in 1991 of killing MacPhail, who worked as a security guard at the time. MacPhail rushed to help a homeless man who prosecutors said Davis was bashing with a gun after asking him a beer. Prosecutors said Davis had a smile on his face as he shot an officer to death in a Burger King parking lot in Savannah.

No weapon was never found, but prosecutors said sockets were related to a shooting earlier in which Davis was convicted.

Witnesses placed Davis at the crime scene and identified him as the murderer, but several of them withdrew from their accounts and some jurors said they changed their minds about his guilt. Others have called for a man who was with Davis that night told the people who actually killed the officer.

"These incredibly flawed evidence should never be the basis of an execution," said Marsh. "To execute someone in these circumstances would be unreasonable."

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who helped lead the charge to stop the execution, said she considered asking Obama to intervene, although it can not give clemency to Davis condemnation of the state.

The press secretary Jay Carney issued a statement saying that while Obama "has worked to ensure the accuracy and fairness in the criminal justice system," it was inappropriate for him "to influence the special cases such as this, which is a continuation of the state. "

Dozens of protesters outside the White House asking the President to intervene, and about 12 were arrested to obey police orders.

Davis was not the only U.S. prisoner to death Wednesday night. Texas white supremacist gang member Lawrence Russell Brewer was sentenced to death for dragging death in 1998 of a black man, James Byrd Jr., one of the most notorious murders of hate crimes in recent history United States.

Thursday ', Alabama must be taken by Derrick Mason, who was sentenced in 1994 shooting death of employee convenience, Angela Cagle.

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