Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) arrives at a press conference across the street from the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison to speak with the media after visiting with death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis in Jackson, Georgia, Thursday, May 29, 2009. Davis was convicted of murdering a Savannah, Georgia police officer in 1989, but since the time of his original trial, seven of nine witnesses have recanted or contradicted their original testimony. (AP Photo/Paul Abell)
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