ATLANTA (AP) - A convicted cop killer said today that if the state puts him to death next week as scheduled it will be executing an innocent man. Thirty-eight-year-old Troy Davis told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from prison that he hopes to get a reprieve or a new trial for the August 19th, 1989, murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail.

In a call arranged by his family, Davis said -- quote -- "What I've been told is in the next few days they'll be coming to get me to escort me to the death house, where they put you pending your execution. All I have to lean on is prayer that God will step in and correct this wrong that was done."

During the call, Davis accused another man who was at the scene that night of committing the murder, though he acknowledges he never made that claim at his trial. He said his lawyers told him not to. Davis said of the other man -- quote -- "He was the only one with a gun in that particular parking lot that night." Davis testified at trial that he was at the scene, but didn't shoot anyone.  Asked if he ever touched a gun that night, Davis told the A-P quickly, "No, sir. I did not." He said he'd be willing to take alie-detector test if given the chance.

Davis' new attorneys said in their clemency petition that was released today that they have new evidence that the other man Davis mentioned, Sylvester Coles, was the killer. They cite affidavits they say they have from three new witnesses showing Coles was the shooter.

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