ATLANTA, Georgia — A Georgia parole board heard a last-ditch appeal Monday from Troy Davis, a convicted murderer just days away from execution whose case has become a global cause celebre for death penalty opponents.
ATLANTA (Reuters) A federal judge refused late on Tuesday to issue a stay of execution for a man who claimed Georgia's supply of lethal injection drug sodium thiopental has "almost certainly" expired, meaning he would be subjected to an unnecessarily painful death.
