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Execution date set for Troy Davis

(File/UPI/Amnesty International)
(File/UPI/Amnesty International)

ATLANTA, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A Georgia prisoner who has been on death row for 19 years will be executed later this month unless he is granted clemency, a judge has determined.

Chatham County Superior Court Judge Penny Freesemann signed a death warrant for Troy Anthony Davis, 41, setting his execution between Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, The Atlanta Journal reported Wednesday.

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The exact date will be determined by Georgia's Department of Corrections.

Davis was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer, Mark Allen MacPhail, outside a Burger King in 1989.

At the time, MacPhail, 27, was running to the aid of a homeless man who was being pistol-whipped.

Davis' case attracted international attention because a number of key witnesses either recanted or backed off their trial testimony.

In August a federal judge rejected Davis' claim that he was wrongly convicted.

A request for clemency was previously rejected by the Board of Parsons and Paroles.

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