Minister Lynn Hopkins, left, comforts her partner Carolyn Bond after hearing that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute plea of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis In Jackson, Ga., Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Davis was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday for killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail. (AP/Photo Stephen Morton)
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