AM 1450 KMMS - Bozeman's News Talk Leader » execution http://kmmsam.com Mon, 20 May 2013 17:38:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Georgia Pardons Board Rejects Bid to Halt Execution of Troy Davis http://kmmsam.com/georgia-pardons-board-execution-troy-davis/ http://kmmsam.com/georgia-pardons-board-execution-troy-davis/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:54:36 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=48236 On Wednesday, the Georgia State Board of Pardons rejected a last-minute appeal to halt the execution of Troy Davis, a death row inmate convicted of shooting and killing a police officer in a crime both he and many others say he did not commit.

Although defense attorneys argued that ballistic testing linking Davis to the shooting was flawed and said Davis would take a polygraph test, the board said it would not review its decision to allow the execution by lethal injection, scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday night, to go forward.

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