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POSTED: Sep 23, 2011 03:20 PMBy Darcy Courteau
On September 21, Troy Davis was executed for the 1989 shooting of a police officer, despite grave doubts about Davis’s guilt. A murder weapon was never recovered, and several witnesses have since recanted. Though Davis maintained his innocence until the end—strapped to a gurney in a Georgia execution chamber, he reportedly told the victim’s family,
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