AJC:

Georgia inmate Troy Davis has been denied clemency by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles in his now high-profile case involving the murder of a Savannah police officer.

“Davis, 42, is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. He was sentenced to death for the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail. … His legal appeals are exhausted, so his latest last-ditch effort before the parole board appears to be his last chance to be spared execution.

Calls for Davis to be spared execution have been made by numerous dignitaries, including former President Jimmy Carter, Pope Benedict XVI, former FBI Director William Sessions, former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher and Larry Thompson, the former deputy U.S. attorney general. Davis’ advocates, including Amnesty International and the NAACP, have used social media to rally worldwide support. Last week, Davis’ supporters presented the parole board with the names of more than 663,000 people asking that Davis be granted clemency.

This is the fourth time the state of Georgia has set an execution date for Davis. On three prior occasions, he was granted stays — twice just hours before his execution was to be carried out.”

Read the full story at the the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Previously: Witness The Evil That Men Do: The Troy Davis Case & Bowie State Murder