Supporters of American death row inmate Troy Davis in the US and Europe tried just about anything to spare him from lethal injection tonight for killing a Georgia policeman, a crime he and others have insisted for years that he did not commit.

A 53-year-old man pleaded guilty today to resisting police outside the set of a Miley Cyrus movie on the Georgia coast in the US after prosecutors agreed to drop charges that he tried to stalk the teen pop star.