This Slate article goes into some detail on police procedure in the Troy Davis case regarding eyewitness testimony. (Georgia presented no physical evidence against Davis, only eyewitness testimony.)
An interesting link in the article goes to this Maryland law prohibiting the death penalty in cases in which the State presents only eyewitness testimony.
There is much philosophical food for thought here, and I'd like to invite comment on the epistemology, the psychology, the ethics, and the pedagogy concerning the unreliability of eyewitness testimony. (Pedagogy in the sense of how people present this issue, if they do, in their classes.)
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