“Seven of nine witnesses against Mr. Davis recanted after trial. Six said the police threatened them if they did not identify Mr. Davis. The man who first told the police that Mr. Davis was the shooter later confessed to the crime. There are other reasons to doubt Mr. Davis’s guilt: There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime introduced at trial, and new ballistics evidence broke the link between him and a previous shooting that provided the motive for his conviction.” A Grievous Wrong, New York Times Editorial 20th September 2011

Troy Davis was executed on the 21st September 2011; he was declared dead at 11:08 pm

Are we so arrogant to assume that our judicial system is 100% accurate? That mistakes do not happen or will not happen in the future? At least when people are wrongly convicted of crime in the UK they only lose their freedom, lets hope they never have to pay for our mistakes with their life.