Georgia Man Loses Fight to Halt Execution in Cop Killing
By Alicia Cruz The Black Urban Times The last words of a condemned man, setnenced to die for the shooting death of an off-duty Georgia policeman in 1989, asked that God have mercy on the souls of those about to take his life. Troy Davis sat on death row in Georgia for the past 20 years as lawyers, Jesse Jackson, former President Jimmy Carter and even Pope Benedict XVI all fought to save his life. Witnesses recanted earlier statements, several things cast reasonable doubt about Davis' guilt, but in the end, that did nothing to spare the 42-year-old's life. After several stays of execution, the latest coming just four hours before Davis was put to death by lethal injection at 10:53pm EDT. The Butts County, Georgia native was declared dead at 11:08 p.m., 15 mintues after he was injected with a lethal cocktail of narcotics in the execution chamber in Jackson. Davis remained defiant up until the end. He refused a last meal, an anti-anxiety drug and would not partake in a final pray...