WHEN LAWYERS for Troy Anthony Davis ask for clemency at the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles today, they are expected to continue the argument that failed during his 1991 murder trial: Someone else killed Savannah policeman Mark Allen McPhail.

Davis’ case has made headlines recently as Amnesty International took up his cause and pointed to post-trial affidavits by people who say that another man shot McPhail, who had been responding to an altercation in a Burger King parking lot.

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