Convicted murderer Troy Davis was executed Wednesday in Georgia. Amnesty International had gathered 15 boxes of petitions asking that Davis' life be spared, while 1,500 legal professionals, 3,300 religious leaders, 110 murder victim relatives and 26 death row exonerees sent letters of their own in support of Davis' clemency.
Here is a rundown on the state of justice in Georgia:
* There were 100 death row prisoners in Georgia on Jan. 1, according to a Dept. of Corrections report to the governor.
* 48 of Georgia's 100 death row prisoners are black; 52 are white. According to U.S. Census 2010 data, 30.5 percent of Georgians are black and 59.7 percent are white. Blacks are thus represented on death row disproportionately to their population.
* 99 of Georgia's death row prisoners are men; one is a woman. Men represent 49.2 percent of Georgia's population, while women constitute 50.8 percent. Men are disproportionately represented on Georgia's death row relative to their population.
* The oldest prisoner on Georgia's death row is Tommy Lee Waldrip, 65. The youngest is Darryl Scott Stinksi, 27.
* Brandon Aster Jones has been on death row the longest, having been sentenced in 1979.
* Georgia executed two death row inmates in 2010: Melbert Ford Jr. and Brandon Rhode. Rhode was brain damaged at the time he was executed as a result of an attempted suicide a week earlier. He had also been diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Rhode was 18 at the time he murdered three people, including two children, who walked in as he was burglarizing their home.
* In 2010, death row prisoner Leland Braley committed suicide. Timothy Pruitt died on death row in late 2009 and authorities have not definitively established whether it resulted from suicide or homicide.
* Forejustice.org reports these Georgia convicts were judicially exonerated after being sentenced to death:
Jerry Banks: death sentence, imprisoned five years, exonerated 1975
Earl Patrick Charles: death sentence, imprisoned 3.6 years, exonerated 1978
James Creamer: death sentence, imprisoned four years, exonerated 1975
Henry Arthur Drake: death sentence, imprisoned 10 years, exonerated 1987
James Foster: death sentence, imprisoned two years, exonerated 1958
Gary Nelson: death sentence, imprisoned 11 years, exonerated 1991
Robert Wallace: death sentence, imprisoned seven years, exonerated 1987
* Two people who were executed by Georgia received posthumous pardons:
Lena Baker: posthumous 1945
Leo Frank: death sentence, imprisoned two years before sentence commuted to life in prison in 1915 and subsequent murder by a lynch mob, posthumously pardoned 1986.
* Fourteen people were judicially exonerated in Georgia after being sentenced to life in prison according to Forejustice.org:
Russell Burton: life sentence, imprisoned 17 years, exonerated 2002
Weldon Wayne Carr: life sentence, imprisoned five years, exonerated 1997
Robert Clark: life sentence, imprisoned 24 years, exonerated 2005
Robert Coleman: life sentence, imprisoned four years, exonerated 1933
George Emmet: life sentence, imprisoned four years, exonerated 1975
Larry Hacker: life sentence, imprisoned two years, exonerated 1975
Clarence Harrison: life sentence, imprisoned 17 years, exonerated 2004
Billy Jenkins: life sentence, imprisoned four years, exonerated 1975
Charles Roberts: life sentence, imprisoned four years, exonerated 1975
Wayne Ruff: life sentence, imprisoned four years, exonerated 1975
William Santos: life sentence, imprisoned 2 years, exonerated 2008
Samuel Scott: life sentence, imprisoned 15 years, exonerated 2002
Terry Lee Wanzer: double life sentence plus 40 years, imprisoned 7 years, exonerated 1991
John Jerome White: life sentence, imprisoned 20 years, exonerated 2007
