Protesters for Troy Davis execution in Jackson, Ga

The Rev. Al Sharpton, left, and Isaac Newton Farris Jr., SCLC president, meet in the protest area next to the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011 after the state ordered the execution of death row inmate Troy Davis to be carried out by lethal injection at 7:00 p.m., for the murder of off-duty Savannah policeman Mark MacPhail, in 1989. UPI Photo/David Tulis