Global protests held in Troy Davis execution case
By Ray Glier | AFP – 17 hrs ago
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Some 300 protest rallies were held worldwide Friday ahead of a last-ditch parole board hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose planned execution sparked an international movement.
Davis is set to be executed September 21 for the 1989 shooting death of a police officer in Savannah, Georgia, but his supporters say there is strong evidence supporting his claim of innocence.
On Thursday, petitions with 663,000 names were handed to th