Georgia inmate Troy Davis was defiant to the end, proclaiming his innocence in the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail.
Here are his final words, as witnessed by an Associated Press reporter:
"I'd like to address the MacPhail family. Let you know, despite the situation you are in, I'm not the one who personally killed your son, your father, …
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Vice President Dick Cheney, concluding two days of talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, said Monday that Hamas militants and their backers in Iran and Syria are playing the role of spoiler in Mideast peace talks.
"It is clearly a difficult situation, in part, because I think it's true, there's evidence, that Hamas is supported by Iran and Syria and that they're doing everything they can to torpedo the peace process," Cheney told reporters before heading to Turkey, the final stop on his 10-day trip to the Mideast.
Cheney said there's ongoing concern about the extent to which arms are being smuggled across the Egyptian border into Gaza where …
WASHINGTON--Eight times during the two decades that Katrina Leungwas paid about $1.7 million by the FBI to spy on the Chinesegovernment, U.S. agents in California discussed the possibility thatshe might be a double agent for China. At least once, a report of theagents' suspicions reached FBI headquarters here.
But for years, nothing happened. Senior law enforcement officialssay Leung, who became a prominent fund-raiser for the RepublicanParty, was never questioned seriously. Nor was her FBI handler,counterterrorism agent James J. Smith. Meanwhile, authorities nowallege, a romantic relationship between Leung and Smith flourished,and Smith allowed Leung access to classified …
DUBLIN (AP) — Britain offered a public apology Wednesday over its forces' murky role in the 1989 killing of a Belfast lawyer and pledged to publish a report into the extent of police and army involvement in the attack.
The government appointed a leading human rights lawyer to review a mountain of secret evidence into the slaying of Patrick Finucane. The investigator, Desmond da Silva, is supposed to publish his findings by December 2012.
"The government is deeply sorry for what happened," Britain's secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Owen Paterson, told lawmakers in London.
Finucane's family expressed fury that Britain had dismissed their long-held demand for a …
The Washington Redskins couldn't even hold off San Diego's backups in Jim Zorn's last game as coach.
Billy Volek threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to fullback Mike Tolbert with 35 seconds left to rally the playoff-bound Chargers to a 23-20 win over the Redskins, San Diego's 11th straight victory.
The Redskins (4-12) plan to fire Zorn on Monday, an official within the NFL told The Associated Press on Sunday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because no formal announcement has been made. Zorn's dismissal has been expected for months.
The AFC West champion Chargers (13-3) already clinched the AFC's No. 2 playoff seed and a first-round bye and had …
