WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch request to halt the execution on Wednesday of a Georgia death row inmate convicted of murdering a police officer in a high-profile death penalty case.
The nation's highest court refused to stay the execution of Troy Davis, who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) at a prison in Jackson, Georgia.
It took the court more than four hours to issue its one-sentence order, an unusually long time in such cases.
Brian Kammer, a lawyer for Davis, said in seeking a stay from the Supreme Court that newly available evidence revealed false, misleading and inaccurate information was presented at the trial, "rendering the convictions and death sentence fundamentally unreliable."
