US executes death row prisoner Troy Davis

21 September 2011 Death row prisoner Troy Davis has been executed in the state of Georgia despite serious doubts surrounding his conviction Amnesty International has condemned the decision by authorities in the state of Georgia to execute death row prisoner Troy Davis.Troy Davis, 42, who had been on death row since 1991, was executed by lethal injection at the Georgia state prison in Jackson on Wednesday, despite serious doubts surrounding his conviction.On the same day, Iran publicly hanged a 17-year old boy convicted of killing a popular athlete despite international prohibitions against…

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