He asked prison officials to allow four of his supporters to watch his lethal injection attorneys Thomas Ruffin and Jason Ewart, minister Stephen Browning and his friend Gemma Puglisi, an American University professor who was an advocate on his behalf. He put Puglisi at the top when asked to rank
Date: Oct 05, 2011
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Troy Davis campaigners vow to fight 'inhumane and inflexible' death penalty
The south's history of racial segregation has also highlighted claims of racial bigotry. One of Davis's lawyers, Thomas Ruffin, has called his death a "legal lynching", pointing out that while black males make up 15% of the population of Georgia they fill almost half the cells on its death row.