In August of 1991, Troy Davis was convicted of murdering Officer Mark MacPhail. Often unreported is the fact that Mr. Davis was also convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting another victim in the face an hour earlier with the same gun that killed Officer MacPhail. Davis thereafter began a 20-year legal odyssey in which he was given numerous and extraordinary opportunities to overturn his conviction. Davis’ appeals were heard by six different courts and were reviewed by those six courts no less than 18 times.
Additionally, and although entitled to only one, Davis was given three separate hearings before Georgia’s Board of Pardons and Paroles. The courts and the board all specifically reviewed Davis’s allegations of innocence. Not one, after reviewing the evidence, found them to be persuasive.
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