Time is running out for a Savannah man on death row for killing one of the city's police officers. Unless the governor or a court intervenes, Troy Anthony Davis will be given a lethal injection on July 17th. Davis was sentenced to die for the murder of Savannah police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail, 27. It happened on August 19, 1989. MacPhail was working off-duty on a security detail at the Greyhound bus terminal, and was found in the parking lot connected to a Burger King restaurant on West Oglethorpe. Amnesty International is working for Davis, click here to read the full report.

When Savannah Police Officer Mark MacPhail was gunned down in August of 1989, it affected a lot of lives-- including Martina Correia's. Her younger brother, Troy Davis, was sentenced to die for the crime and now time is running out for him. Davis is the next inmate on Georgia's Death Row scheduled for execution.

"People don't know the facts of the case. I tell them if you knew the facts of the case you would not call my brother a cop killer," says Correia who has spent the past 16 years fighting for her brother's life. She says her brother was only trying to help another person involved in a fight at the time Officer MacPhail was shot outside of the Savannah Greyhound terminal and that he was convicted without any physical evidence. Correia says the only two people who testified they saw Davis with a gun have since changed their stories. "Most of the witnesses have said that they got tired of the police harrassing and harrassing them and threatening and threatening them and that they just gave in and told them what they wanted to hear. They said they were given already pre-typed statements and they were signing them just to get out of the police department. One guy couldn't even read or write."

A report by Amnesty International, a human rights group opposed to the death penalty, claims that seven of the 9 witnesses who helped convict Davis have now recanted their stories. Several are expected to appear at a news conference next Tuesday in Atlanta. The group also alledges that race was an issue in the case. Davis is black and MacPhail was white.

Correia hopes the attention her brother's case is getting will help before its too late. A clemency hearing is scheduled for July 16, the day before Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.