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Jonesville Baptist Church at funeral of Troy Davis in Savannah, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Davis died by injection for the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail.

Funeral directors bring the casket of Troy Davis into the Jonesville Baptist Church before his funeral in Savannah, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.

Madison MacPhail, right, daughter of slain off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail, reacts as she speaks about her late father while joined by her mother Joan MacPhail, following a hearing for convicted killer Troy Davis in Atlanta, Sept. 19, 2011.

Shari Robbings waits in line outside the Jonesville Baptist Church before the funeral of Troy Davis in Savannah, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.

A line of people wait outside the Jonesville Baptist Church before the funeral of Troy Davis in Savannah, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011. Davis died by injection for the 1989 slaying of off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail.

Troy Davis, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, insisted for years, up until his final words in Georgia's death chamber, that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer based on faulty testimony from witnesses to the crime. It wasn't enough to sway courts to spare Davis.

Anne MacPhail pauses for a moment after learning at 10:55 p.m., on September 21, 2011, that the U.S. Supreme Court had denied a stay of execution for Troy Davis, who was convicted in the 1989 murder of her son Mark MacPhail. Davis was executed shortly after in Jackson, Georgia.

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Funeral directors bring the casket of Troy Davis into the Jonesville Baptist Church before his funeral in Savannah, Ga., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011.

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