World News | Kim Severson, New York Times | Thursday September 22, 2011
Proclaiming his innocence, Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday night, his life -- and the hopes of supporters worldwide -- prolonged by several hours while the Supreme Court reviewed but then declined to act on a petition from his lawyers to stay the execution. Mr. Davis, 42, who was convicted of murdering a Savannah police...
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