Thursday, September 22, 2011

Troy Davis: Race vs rights on 'scales of injustice'

A U.S. death row inmate has been executed by lethal injection in the state of Georgia for the 1989 shooting of an off-duty policeman. Prosecutors maintained they were sure he was guilty. However, the weapon was never discovered and DNA tests failed to link him to the killing. Davis' supporters say capital punishment just isn't dealt fairly in the U.S.