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The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of execution Friday for a Georgia death row inmate who had been scheduled to die on Monday, his attorney said.

Troy Davis was convicted in 1991 of the murder of Savannah police Officer Mark MacPhail two years earlier, but has always maintained his innocence.

Witnesses claimed Davis, then 19, and two others were harassing a homeless man in a Burger King parking lot when the off-duty officer arrived to help the man. Read full article »

CNN's Tristan Smith and Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report.

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