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Supreme Court Orders Hearing for Georgia Man

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: August 17, 2009Filed at 11:16 a.m. ETWASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis, whose supporters say is innocent and should be spared from execution for killing a police officer 20 years ago.Davis has spent 18 years on death row for the 1989 slaying of Savannah, Ga., police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis' attorneys insist that he is innocent and deserves a new trial because several witnesses at his trial h
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