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The US state of Georgia has executed convicted murderer Troy Davis in a high-profile US case, with Davis and his advocates maintaining his innocence to the end. Powered by www.newslook.com Producer : Reuters

For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.comFollow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevisionFollow us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevisionChinese authorities have gone through with the controversial execution of three Filipinos. They had been convicted of smuggling drugs into China. Their families were devastated by the news.Chinese authorities executed three Filipinos convicted of drug trafficking on Wednesday. It came despite a flurry of public appeals for clemency in the Philippines—and just days after Amnesty International slammed Beijing's sweeping use of the death penalty.The three were convicted of smuggling several kilos of heroin each into China in 2008.The Philippine Vice President had sent an appeal to Beijing on Tuesday, asking to keep the Filipinos alive while The Philippines investigated new evidence aimed at proving the innocence of at least one or two of them.Elizabeth Batain, 38, was executed by lethal injection at a prison in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. Sally Ordinario-Villanueva, 32, and Ramon Credo, 42, were executed in the port city of Xiamen.Sally Ordinario-Villanueva's family in Manila could not accept their loss. Her sister Mirasol said she could not even say her goodbyes to Sally since mobile phones were prohibited inside the Xiamen prison. Their plan was to let the family members in the Philippines, including Sally's two children, to say their last farewells.[Mirasol Ordinario, Sister of Executed Sally Ordinario]:"This is the punishment carried out by China. All I can say is that my sister is a human being. She is not an animal. I wish they had listened to our appeals."Members of Migrante International, which campaigns for overseas workers' rights, visited the family home on Wednesday, expressing their condemnation of the execution.

Campaigners in the UK are making a last ditch attempt to stop the execution of a British woman on death row in the United States.Linda Carty is due to be executed by lethal injection in Texas for the murder of a woman nine years ago.Carty has always protested her innocence and campaigners say there were severe problems with the trial that convicted her.Tim Friend reports.

Three protestors gather outside the walls of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary on May 14, 2009 as the state puts convicted child killer Donald Lee Gilson to death for the brutal murder of 8-year-old Shane Coffman. As he lay dying, Gilson professed his innocence. He was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m.

In most places death has no schedule, but in Huntsville, Texas, an average of 16 people per year are scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. Texas executes more people than any other U.S. state. National Geographic's "Inside Death Row" interviews three inmates as their dates of execution draw near, and follows the stories of their families and loved ones as they deal with death firsthand. This story is not one of guilt or innocence; it is about how the State of Texas carries out the death penalty as well as the men and women whom, by choice or circumstance, become players in the act of executing another human being. Lastly, it explores how the residents of Huntsville feel towards living in a town that is ground zero for capital punishment in the United States.