Troy Davis: AVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Did Troy Anthony Davis deserve to be on Georgia's death row? The answer depends on one's faith in the system and its many procedural hoops. Trial witnesses recanted what they'd sworn to police, and jurors even questioned their verdict. Activists, some of them death-penalty supporters, protested by the thousands that he was innocent — or at least that guilt was hopelessly shrouded in reasonable doubt. But do those "supposed recantations," asks law professor Michael Mears, constitute a mountain of evidence? Or were they, as prosecutors claim, just a molehill, fabricated by death penalty opponents? A close review...
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