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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Davis case pushed back by U.S. top court

The U.S. Supreme Court has pushed back its consideration of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. The high court was expected to issue a decision Monday as to whether to hear the Davis case--it elected to move it to a private conference on its Friday schedule. Two weeks ago, Davis was granted a stay of execution less than two hours before he was to face lethal injection. Davis was convicted of the 1989 murder of an off-duty Savannah police officer. Since the trial, several witnesses in the case have recanted.

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