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US state courts reject delay in disputed Georgia execution
Sep 21, 2011, 22:29 GMT
Washington - With just hours left before the execution of a convicted killer in Georgia, two state courts turned down Troy Davis' appeal for delay on Wednesday.
His lawyers have now appealed to the US Supreme Court, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the execution venue chanting 'save Troy Davis' through the day.
Earlier Wednesday, France made an impassioned appeal to the state of Georgia to spare the 42-year-old prisoner, who is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Other international voices have pleaded for mercy.
During three previous decisions to delay the execution, seven of nine witnesses recanted or backed away from their testimony in the trial of Davis for the 1989 murder of a Savannah police officer, Mark Allen MacPhail.
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