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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 195. Chapters: Troy Davis, Krishna Palepu, Richard Wiggs, Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, Ior Bock, Allan Sherman, 13th Dalai Lama, Tom Herron, Bernard Kirk, Ninian Smart, William Wardell, James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, Catherine Cranston, Loret Miller Ruppe, Abram Hoffer, Leslie Graham, Zu Ting, William Nicholson (artist), Kenneth Robinson, Kazimierz yszczy ski, Mark Hopkinson, Willie Mosconi, Loulou de la Falaise, Harvey Kurtzman, George J. Armelagos, Murder of Melanie Hall, John Cochrane (chess player), Franti ek astny, Luther Lassiter, Yaakov Weinberg, Keith Laumer, Tom Burton, Nguyen Van Nhung, John Hartle, Richard Drauz, Bertie Crewe, Tun Tun, Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Lindi Ortega, Shady Wall, Margaret Brent, King O'Malley, Jack Ackroyd, Ali Matthews, Folole Muliaga, Mai Huu Xuan, Sean Hoare, Kenneth Bigley, William Forsyth (artist), William Spencer (navigational instrument maker), Albert Goozee, Tom Phillis, Max Yasgur, Vincent Ostrom, Malchiel Gruenwald, Berry L. Cannon, Rashid Rauf, Joan Tompkins, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, Ruth Snyder, Carl Oglesby, Feroze Gandhi, Ken McElroy, James Benson, Frithjof Tidemand-Johannessen, ta D kan, Avram Davidson, Jon Postel, Jose Luis Cabezas, Emanuela Orlandi, Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, Richard Marsland, Manadel al-Jamadi, Stan Zemanek, Harry Powers, Iyoas I, Peter Beter, Constance Stokes, Billy Graham (comics), Gemma McCluskie, Henry John Elwes, Mary Whiton Calkins, Myron Coureval Fagan, Emlyn Jenkins, W. D. M. Bell, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, John Paul Getty, Jr., Fergus Anderson, Alfred Schulz-Curtius, Anto Gvozdenovi, Eugene Raymond Hutchinson, Pierre Lafitte, Paulina Luisi, Marjorie Gestring, Robert Post (journalist), Martin Grossman, William Hamilton (diplomat), Auckland Colvin, Johnny Thomas (rugby), Jeremy Dalton, Tran Van Huong, Edwin Brown, Oscar G. Mason, William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (10th Creation), Paul McBride, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., Carsten Thomassen (journalist), William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, Dan Gordon (animator), Mary and Conrad Buff. Excerpt: Troy Anthony Davis (October 9, 1968 - September 21, 2011) was an American man convicted of and executed for the August 19, 1989, murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King restaurant when he intervened to defend a man being assaulted in a nearby parking lot. During Davis's 1991 trial, seven witnesses testified they had seen Davis shoot MacPhail, and two others testified Davis had confessed the murder to them among 34 witnesses who testified for the prosecution, and six others for the defense, including Davis. Although the murder weapon was not recovered, ballistic evidence presented at trial linked bullets recovered at or near the scene to those at another shooting in which Davis was also charged. He was convicted of murder and various lesser charges, including the earlier shooting, and was sentenced to death in August 1991. Davis maintained his innocence up to his execution. In the 20 years between his conviction and execution, Davis and his defenders secured support from the public, celebrities, and human rights groups. Amnesty International and other groups such as National Association for the Advancement of Colored People took up Davis's cause. Prominent politicians and leaders, including former President Jimmy Carter, Rev. Al Sharpton, Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former U.S. Congressman from Georgia and presidential candidate Bob Barr, and former FBI Director and judge William S. Sessions called upon the courts to grant Davis a new trial or evidentiary hearing. In July 2007, September 2008, and October 2008, execution dates were scheduled, but each execution...
