Convicted Man was Executed in Georgia

Troy Davis, a 42 years-old African American inmate convicted of killing officer Mark MacPhail in 1989, received yesterday a lethal injection at a Jackson (Georgia) penitentiary after the U.S. high court decided to carry out the execution.Dozens of people protested because the death of Davis and affirmed he was executed for no reson since he was innocent. This case is full of irregularities, seven of the nine witnesses who accused David recanted later, also the murder weapon could not be submitted at the trial and there no DNA tests.

Davis’s lawyers argued before the Butts County Superior Court, where the center of executions in Georgia is located, the defense questioned the validity of the ballistic evidence used at the trial. “We will give the judiciary an opportunity to avoid a disaster legal, constitutional and moral,” said Brian Kammer, one of the lawyers.

The European Union, Amnesty International, the Vatican and France asked yesterday to the United States to stop the execution of Davis. “By executing a condemned whose guilt is in serious doubt, an irreparable mistake would be made,” said deputy spokesman of the French Foreign Ministry, Romain Nadal. Three Democratic congressmen also signed a petition last minute to stop the execution.