Too Much Doubt Troy Davis
Channel: Born Bougie
Date: 2011-09-12

Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a Georgia police officer in 1991. Nearly two decades later, Davis remains on death row — even though the case against him has fallen apart.Between the trial and first set of appeals, seven of the nine prosecution eyewitnesses who had linked Davis to the killing have recanted their trial testimony, with many stating that they were coerced by police. The witness who first implicated Davis and has remained consistent, Sylvester "Redd" Coles, was initially a suspect in the crime. Coles was seen acting suspiciously the night of MacPhail's murder. One person has said that Coles boasted at a party that he killed an off-duty police officer. One witness did not recant his testimony and is not himself a suspect in the murder; he made an in-court identification of Davis at the original trial.