DOES INNOCENCE EVEN MATTER IN TODAY’S JUDICIAL SYSTEM?

| September 24, 2008 - 11:36 pm

Tags: appeals, capital punishment, death penalty, innocence, Supreme Court

The United State Supreme Court stopped the execution of Troy Davis today, less than two hours before he was supposed to be executed by lethal injection following a decision of the Georgia Supreme Court, that upheld Davis’ conviction for the murderer of an off duty police officer in Savannah, Georgia in August of 1989.