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Just hours after Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection for the murder of an off-duty police officer, Georgia has set the execution date for its next death row inmate.

The state of Georgia executed convicted murderer Troy Davis on Wednesday in a case that drew international attention because of claims by his advocates that he may have been innocent.

Davis was pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m. on Wednesday after Georgia officials executed him by lethal injection. He was put to death for the 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail, and convicted in 1991.

Troy Davis' case isn't the only controversial one that the U.S. has seen. Here are a few other recent and old cases that have been reported in the media over the years.

Despite high-profile protests and a last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, convicted murderer Troy Davis was put to death in Georgia late Wednesday night by lethal injection.

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Not giving up till the end, Troy Davis kept fighting till the last moment, till his execution on Wednesday night. The Georgia man was executed 20 years after he was convicted of the fatal shooting of Mark Macphail, a police officer, despite a plea for clemency from people around the world.

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Troy Davis addressed the family of Mark MacPhail as he was put to death for killing the policeman in 1989.

The state of Georgia Wednesday night executed Troy Davis, who was convicted of killing a Savannah police officer 22 years ago, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.

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The state of Georgia executed Troy Davis Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.

The Supreme Court caused an astonishing last-minute delay to Troy Davis' execution on Wednesday, saying it needed time to review his appeal, CNN is reporting.

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A last-ditch appeal on behalf of death row inmate Troy Davis was rejected on Wednesday, making it all but certain that Davis would be executed. Davis, 42, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

As of Jan. 1, 2011, there were 3,251 total prisoners on death row in the U.S., but the number of executions per year has been declining over the past decade. Despite the decline, the United States still executes the fourth most people of any country in the world.

Davis was tried and convicted for the 1989 murder of Mark MacPhail, a police officer in Savannah, Ga.

While Georgia officials are planning to execute death row inmate Troy Davis for a 1989 murder, the U.S. Supreme Court for the second time this week granted a stay of execution in a Texas case involving an Army recruiter convicted of raping and killing a woman he met at a bar.

For the second time in a week's duration, the Supreme Court halted a planned execution in Texas by intervening in the final hours of the execution.

With the hours before Troy Davis' scheduled execution dwindling rapidly, the Georgia death row inmate's defenders made a last ditch attempt to delay his execution by demanding that prison officials let him take a polygraph test.

Death row inmate Troy Davis has been in familiar situations before, but this time it looks like his chances of clinging on to life are slimmer than all times before. After the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his clemency plea and said his execution will take place as per schedule at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, observers are giving slim chances for the judicial system to give him another chance.