Death row inmate fails in eleventh hour clemency bid

GEORGIA’S pardons board rejected clemency for Troy Davis yesterday, one day before his scheduled execution, despite high-profile support from figures including an ex-president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989.

Davis is scheduled to die today by injection for killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail, who was shot dead while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked. It is the fourth time in four years that Davis’s execution has been scheduled by Georgia officials.

“Justice was finally served for my father,” said Mark MacPhail Jr, who was an infant when his father was gunned down. “The truth was finally heard.”