Troy Davis
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican convicted murderer (1968-2011)
United StatesLived 1968 to 2011 · aged 42Troy Anthony Davis was a man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989, murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King restaurant and was intervening to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot when he was murdered.
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Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison, where Davis was held on death row and where he was executed
Demonstration in support of Troy Davis, Paris, July 2008
Rapper M-1 speaks at a rally held in 2009 in New York City in support of Troy Davis.
A man protesting the September 21 execution date at the September 17 Occupy Wall Street rally
September 25, 2011 in France, after the execution of Troy Davis.About this person
Troy Anthony Davis was a man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989, murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King restaurant and was intervening to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot when he was murdered. At Davis's 1991 trial, seven witnesses testified that they had seen him shoot MacPhail, and two others testified that Davis had confessed the murder to them. There were 34 witnesses who testified for the prosecution, and six others for the defense, including Davis. Although the murder weapon was not recovered, ballistic evidence presented at trial linked bullets recovered at or near the scene to those at another shooting in which Davis was also charged. He was convicted of murder and various lesser charges, including the earlier shooting, and was sentenced to death in August 1991.
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