SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Savannah church is holding a
prayer service to show support for a Georgia inmate scheduled for execution
next week despite his longstanding claims of innocence. Family and supporters of death row inmate Troy
Anthony Davis planned to gather Saturday evening for the service at St. Philip
Monumental AME Church. Davis is scheduled to die by lethal injection
Wednesday for the 1989 slaying of Mark MacPhail, an off-duty Savannah police
officer who was shot while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked. Davis insists he's innocent and has avoided
execution three times since 2007. A federal judge ruled last year that Davis
didn't have enough evidence to clear his name, despite claims his lawyers had
made for years. Now advocates are urging Georgia's pardons board to
grant Davis clemency. Copyright
2011 The Associated Press. (AP
Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections, File)
