Posted: August 25th, 2010, 8:16am MSD
[JURIST] The US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia [official website] on Tuesday denied [order part 1, PDF; part 2, PDF] the habeas corpus petition of Troy Anthony Davis [advocacy website; JURIST news archive], convicted and sentenced to death for murdering an off-duty Savannah, Georgia, police officer. After Davis exhausted his appeals under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act [text], the US Supreme Court [official website] took the rare step of granting [order, PDF; JURIST report] his original writ of habeas corpus [cert. petition, PDF] and instructed the district court to examine new findings of fact in...