Exonerated death row inmate Ernest (Shujaa) Graham breaks down in tears during his speech in which he talked about his experience on death row at the May 17th, 2008 rally for death row inmate Troy Davis in front of the Georgia State Capitol. Graham was acquited of murder charges and freed from death row in 1981. Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia; a murder he says he did not commit. There was no physical evidence against Davis ever found and the weapon used in the crime was also never found. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony. Since Davis' conviction over 17 years ago all but two of the state's nine witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony. Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis.
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