Brian Kammer, left, and Jason Ewart, members of the Troy Davis legal team who have asked for a polygraph test for their client
Ebenezer Baptist church Pastor Raphael Warnock (left) speaks next to Amnesty International campaign director Laura Moye during a news conference to halt the execution yesterday
Family,Left to right Mr MacPhail's mother Anneliese MacPhail, his son Mark MacPhail Junior, his widow Joan MacPhail and daughter Madison MacPhail, yesterday speak of their relief after Georgia pardons board upholds execution
Sisterly Kimberly Davis, right, along with NAACP Fellow Kirin Kennedy, left, work at her kitchen table to organise upcoming marches and vigils in support of her brother's innocence
Georgia inmate Troy Davis's last-ditch request for a lie detector test to try to prove his innocence ahead of tonight's planned execution has been denied by Georgia Department of Corrections.
Defence lawyer Stephen Marsh said he had hoped the polygraph would convince the state pardons board to reconsider a decision against clemency, which was rejected yesterday.
Davis, 42, is scheduled to die at 7pm tonight. It is the fourth time in four years that Davis' execution has been scheduled by Georgia officials.
He has long claimed he is innocent of killing Mark MacPhail, an off-duty police officer working as a security guard in Savannah, Georgia in 1989. But state and federal courts have repeatedly upheld his conviction.
Prosecutors and MacPhail's relatives say they have no doubt the right man is being punished.
On Tuesday, Georgia's pardons board rejected a last-ditch clemency plea despite high-profile support from figures including the Pope and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted.
Steve Hayes, spokesman for the Board of Pardons and Paroles, said the panel decided to rejected Davis' request for clemency after hearing hours of testimony from his supporters and prosecutors.
The board did not elaborate on the decision in its written official response to the clemency application.
The decision appeared to leave Davis with little chance of avoiding the execution date. Defence attorney Jason Ewart has said that the pardons board was likely Davis' last option.
Davis is to be executed by injection at 7pm tonight for the 1989 killing of Mr MacPhail, a 27-year-old off-duty police officer who was working as a security guard in Savannah when he was shot dead rushing to help a homeless man who had been attacked.
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