This very controversial trial began when I was only a few months old. After twenty years on death row, Davis was executed by lethal injection for murdering off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail, former Army Ranger.
The coverage of the Troy Davis trial was scattered and inconclusive. I had never heard of the Troy Davis trial except for a few weeks before his execution. I wondered about the case that was moving so many of my fellow students to action.
I watched my local news programs that were all covering the execution.I had to watch several different news programs on different stations and piece the information together myself because some information was given on one channel and not given on others.
One channel reported on the witnesses who recanted their original statements while another station reported the death of witnesses.
I thought that Davis was just a cop killer who was being executed after waiting for twenty years. It was difficult for me to see the other side of the story through only the news coverage of the trial and execution.
I still wondered what all the fuss was about until I talked to the campus President of the NAACP about the trial and her efforts to support Davis and stay his execution.
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