Jackson, Georgia (ap)-Troy Davis, tied to Georgia death chamber, raise head, and stretcher announced that the last time, he did not kill police officer mark MacPhail. Just a few feet away MacPhail son and brother, silently looks behind the glass window.
Outside the prison, and more than 500 demonstrators crowd cried, hugging, prayers and hold a candle. They represent the tens of thousands of all over the world against the death penalty supporters to career Davis last days tick.
"I'm innocent," said Davis, before he is the execution time on Wednesday night. "I can ask... is, you look into this situation, make you really can finally see truth, I asked my family and friends, and to continue to play this fight."
Prosecutors and MacPhail family said, justice be served at last.
"I became numb, I can't believe this is actually happening," MacPhail's mother, Anneliese MacPhail, in Columbus, Georgia, in her said in a telephone interview "I have been all the relief and peaceful feelings wait for over the years, they will later, of course I hope some peace."
She was fired Davis have pleaded not guilty.
"He has always tell the oneself, for 22 years. You know what is going on, he can talk about what."
Davis be set died in 7 PM, but hours came to the United States Supreme Court obviously heavy. More than three hours later, the high court says it will not interfere. The judge to they refused to Davis of the accommodation to requires no comment.
Hundreds of thousands of people representing Davis have signed a petition, and he has a prominent supporters. His lawyer, said that for his nine key witness seven of the controversial all or part of their testimony, but state and federal judges to his rule over and over again-daily (Wednesday) three times as much.
When asked about Thursday on NBC's "today" show, if he thinks that country carries out an innocent person, civil rights leaders aluminum XiaPuDu pastor said: "I believe that they do, but even if is beyond my belief, they clearly performed many, many reasonable doubt."
MacPhail's widow, director of the Joan MacPhail Harris said, it is "for all the family healing time."
"I'll Davis family sad, because now they want to understand our pain and our hurt, she said:" the telephone interview from Jackson. "I pray to them, I have been praying for them, over the years, I pray will have some peace for them along the way.
Davis supporters in the United States and Europe at the vigil, claims that "I Troy Davis" signs, t-shirts and the Internet. Some try to more and more crazy measures, urged prison workers to stay at home, and even the judge's phone number in the online publication, hoped that people would stop by his lethal injections. President Obama has deviated from him into requirements.
"They said death row, we say hell; no!!!" Jackson demonstrators chanted outside the prison, before the execution. Davis In Washington, the Supreme Court of the same crowd Shouting outside the recall.
Dozens of riot police gathered outside the prison of as many as 700 demonstrators stand to watch people wearing thin, but at night, the outcome become clear.
Davis since 2007 has stopped the three times. The U.S. Supreme Court even gave Davis an unusual opportunity to prove their innocence in the lower court last year. Although the Supreme Court didn't hear that, they also set to Davis vindication hardline standard, and the ruling his lawyer must be "clear establish" Davis "childlike innocence-proved guilty, the prosecutors to meet the higher bar. After the hearing, the lower court judge ruled that the prosecutor's favor, and the judge did not take the case.
His lawyer Stephen, Davis will have a marsh give flowers (Wednesday) to take polygraph test, if forgive officials have taken his proposal serious part. But they also said they would not consider their decision. The governor of Georgia, and has not given the condemned prisoner with power but.
Because of his last few hours tick, optimistic and devout Davis declined to provide a special last meal, he and his friends, family and supporters meet.
"Troy Davis has affected the world," his sister martina Correia said, before implementation. "They said, 'I Troy Davis," he can't say language. "
Davis family members, and had witnessed the execution left to reporters to talk to.
Davis supporters, including former President Jimmy Carter to Pope Benedict xvi, former fbi director, the naacp, several conservative Numbers, many celebrities, including hip-hop star Sean "P diddy",.
"I tried to put the word of young people: there are too many doubt," rap big Boi, rangers the choir's headquarters in Atlanta, the panel said the church near in prison.
In Paris, about 150 protesters rally on the "face" with Davis of the sign." Amnesty international Krameyer Nicholas said: "everybody to see a bit of all know, a lot of questions, execution, he protested.
Davis was convicted of murder in 1991 and who is as MacPhail a security work time. MacPhail to a homeless man who prosecutors say the pistol Davis lashed out at, he asked for a beer aid. Prosecutors said, Davis on his face, because he was the giggle burger king in the parking lot of the savannah shooting deaths.
No gun is ever found, but prosecutors said shell, linked to an earlier shooting in the Davis be condemned.
The witness at the scene of the crime, and placed Davis determined he as a striker, but there are several withdrew their account and some jurors said they have changed their minds, his indictment. Others claimed that a man with Davis on the night of the shooting, he told the people of personnel.
"This incredible defective eyewitness testimony should not be the basis of execution," marsh said. "In this situation to perform well are not reasonable."
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