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"The execution of  Troy Davis  was delayed temporarily by the US supreme court on Wednesday night, in a dramatic intervention just as he was due to be put to death by lethal injection. "As the first news came in at the Jackson prison that houses death row, a huge cheer erupted from a crowd of more than 500 protesters that had amassed on the other side of the road. "Davis's supporters kissed each other and threw placards which read "Not in my name" into the air. "But the jubilation was short-lived. Talk of a reprieve from the US supreme court quickly gave way to rumours of a stay, and finally the realisation that the court had only ordered a temporary delay as it considered the matter. The mood then grew more sombre as the waiting game that has now been going on for years with Davis resumed."

As of this writing, Troy Davis is still alive. But barring unforeseen intervention, by the time you read this, the government of Georgia state will have executed him. Troy Davis is an African American man convicted of killing a Euro-American policeman. The Guardian newspaper in England has an article entitled  “Troy Davis: 10 reasons why he should not be executed." Those reasons include: That of the nine trial witnesses who said he shot policeman Mark MacPhail to death, seven have since recanted their claims. “Many of those who retracted their evidence said that they had been cajoled by police into testifying against Davis. Some said they had been threatened with being put on trial themselves if they did not co-operate.” Sylvester Coles “was the man who first came forward to police and implicated Davis as the killer. But over the past 20 years evidence has grown that Coles himself may be the gunman and that he was fingering Davis to save his own skin.” The case has drawn ...