Troy Davis has been granted a 90-day stay of execution. He had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7pm tonight. Davis was convicted in 1991 for the murder of Savannah police officer Mark McPhail.
The order from the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles late Monday suspends Davis' execution until October 14th. Between now and then, his lawyers will try to convince the Board to remove Davis from death row altogether.
Davis' older sister, Martina Correia, talked to her brother as soon as she heard the news.
"He was sitting alone in a room, and they actually had already moved him to the death chamber, and when he said 90 days, he said all the guards started coming down there, thanking him, and telling him they were getting ready to move him out of there and put him back in his cell".
Correia is elated, but she's ready to hit the pavement to galvanize support for full clemency. Since reinstating the death penalty in 1973, 47 cases have come before Georgia's Parole Board--clemency was granted in eight.
The order from the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles late Monday suspends Davis' execution until October 14th. Between now and then, his lawyers will try to convince the Board to remove Davis from death row altogether.
Davis' older sister, Martina Correia, talked to her brother as soon as she heard the news.
"He was sitting alone in a room, and they actually had already moved him to the death chamber, and when he said 90 days, he said all the guards started coming down there, thanking him, and telling him they were getting ready to move him out of there and put him back in his cell".
Correia is elated, but she's ready to hit the pavement to galvanize support for full clemency. Since reinstating the death penalty in 1973, 47 cases have come before Georgia's Parole Board--clemency was granted in eight.
