THE MEMORY OF TROY A. DAVIS
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In Memory of Troy Davis Submitted by Eric Greene on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 13:55 I was driven to post this in memory of Troy Davis -- and also in anger, in sadness, in intellectual disgust and moral horror. Davis, who was black, was executed just after 11:00 last night for the 1989 murder of white police officer Mark MacPhail. That execution took place despite massive "reasonable doubt" about Davis's guilt, and despite clear evidence of police corruption or incompetence. No clear physical evidence links Davis to the murder. Seven of the nine witnesses who implicated him have recanted and said they made their statements after being pressured and threatened by police. Of the two who remain, one is said to have told multiple people that he was MacPhail's real killer. The police used procedures known to influence the memory of eyewitnesses -- and such memories are famously malleable and unreliable. As Innocence
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