Will the lights go out in Georgia--again?

Tomorrow a man who is probably innocent of the murder he has been convicted of committing is scheduled to be executed in Georgia.

According to The Washington Post:

A Georgia man is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday for killing a police officer in 1989, even though the case against him has withered in recent years as most of the key witnesses at his trial have recanted and in some cases said they lied under pressure from police.

Prosecutors discount the significance of the recantations and argue that it is too late to present such evidence. But supporters of Troy Davis, 38, and some legal scholars say the case illustrates the dangers wrought by decades of Supreme Court decisions and new laws that have rendered the courts less likely to overturn a death sentence.

Three of four witnesses who testified at trial that Davis shot the officer have signed statements contradicting their identification of the gunman. Two other witnesses -- a fellow inmate and a neighborhood acquaintance who told police that Davis had confessed to the shooting -- have said they made it up.

Other witnesses point the finger not at Davis but at another man. Yet none has testified during his appeals because federal courts barred their testimony.

"It's getting scary," Davis said by phone last week. "They don't want to hear the new facts. . . . I just think they made a mistake in the investigation," Davis said by phone last week. "I'm just trying to hold up. . . . I'm trying to maintain my faith that God will step in and soften the judge's heart."

If Davis is executed and if he is innocent, he would join a small, sad national dishonor role. According to the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty, there have been 31 "instances in the last century in which a person with an extraordinarily strong case of innocence [has] been executed by the government," and 124 people across the country have been exonerated while sitting on death row since 1973.