ATLANTA — The Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole on Wednesday denied a request to reconsider clemency for Troy Davis, hours before the death row inmate is scheduled to be executed for the killing of a police officer, FOX News Channel reported.
Davis’ lawyers asked the parole board to reconsider its Tuesday decision to deny clemency, but the board said Wednesday morning it would not reconsider.
Davis is scheduled to be executed Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. local time, and in a last ditch effort to prove his innocence, his lawyers asked that he be allowed to take a polygraph test. That request was also denied Wednesday, FOX News reported.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International spokesperson Wendy Gozan Brown told FOX that Davis’ attorneys filed an appeal in Butts County, Ga., Superior Court for a stay of execution.
Davis, 42, is scheduled to be executed at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification prison near Jackson, Ga. He was convicted of the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail, but witnesses have since changed or recanted their testimony.
No physical evidence linked him to the crime.
His case has prompted protests around the world and Amnesty International and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plan to protest outside the prison Wednesday night.