Monday’s Supreme Court orders denying Troy Davis’s petitions means a long and unnecessary legal ordeal has come to an end, one that has compromised the credibility of the criminal justice system.
Troy Davis’s lawyers have for years been claiming that most key witnesses at trial had recanted, and that he is innocent. All they wanted, they said, was a full hearing with live testimony to show Davis had been wrongly convicted and that he was innocent. They got that hearing last year after it was granted by a virtually unheard-of U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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