All protests against the execution of Troy Davies sentenced to death were in vain. With a few hours delay, the sentence was carried out. Davies was convicted because he allegedly shot a policeman in 1989.Despite international protests, the 42-year-old Troy Davis on the night of Thursday in the U.S state of Georgia has been executed. After the rejection of applications in the last minute request for postponement by the Supreme Court was the death sentence with some hours delay enforced Davis should have shot a policeman in 1989. The lawyers said the condemned man to the end, her client was innocent."All I ask is that you examine this case further, that ye may know the truth at the end," Davis said just before his execution. His family and friends, he asked, "to fight his fight continues." At the prison guards approached the 42-year-old said, "May God have mercy on your souls." To clock 23.08 (local time), he died lying on a stretcher by lethal injection.Seven of nine witnesses who testified against Davis in 1991, had recanted their testimony in whole or in part. Other witnesses who were not heard in court, said that another man had admitted the crime. Because of doubts about his guilt spoke alongside former U.S President Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict XVI. and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the European Union against the death sentence from.Hundreds of thousands of people around the world had expressed their support for Davis. Some called on the prison staff to strike on Wednesday or krankzumelden. Several European parliamentarians and human rights activists on Wednesday once again appealed to the U.S state of Georgia to halt the execution.Attorney General Sam Olen said in a statement that the execution of the sentence were the murdered police officer and his family justice. The murdered man's widow in 1989, said the execution was not a cause for joy, but "a time of healing for all families." Also, they will mourn for the Davis family, which will now understand the suffering and the pain that they've been through it.Execution postponed several timesOriginally, Davis should be executed already in July 2007. A parole board granted but less than 24 hours before the scheduled execution date postponement. A year later, the Supreme Court stepped in and stopped the execution less than two hours before he was to receive lethal injection. An appeals court stopped another planned execution a few months later.

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