Abolish the Racist Death Penalty! Troy Davis Appeal Turned Down http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/965/davis.html On August 24, Georgia federal judge William T. Moore rejected black inmate Troy Davis’ efforts to overturn his death sentence, declaring the substantial evidence of Davis’ innocence to be “smoke and mirrors.” This decision gives a green light to Georgia’s governor to sign a new execution warrant for Davis, who has faced three execution dates so far, coming within 90 minutes of execution in 2008. Sentenced to death in 1991 for the killing of off-duty Savannah policeman Mark MacPhail, Davis was convicted based on questionable “eyewitness” identifications, dubious accounts that Davis confessed to the killing and testimony coerced by the cops. Seven of the prosecution’s nine witnesses have since recanted. The only holdouts are one man who may be the actual killer and another who initially denied being able to identify the shooter only to pin it on Davis at trial two years