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LARRY DAVIS SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION

The Texas Attorney General issued the following news release:

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott offers the following information about Larry Donnell Davis, who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m.Thursday, July 31, 2008.

Larry Donnell Davis was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for the August 1995 murder and robbery of Michael Barrow in Amarillo.

A summary of the evidence presented at trial follows.

FACTS OF THE CRIME

Larry Donnell Davis gave a fourteen-page confession, which was admitted at his trial and which contained the following details:

David said he was approached by his friends, brothers Ray ("Ray-Ray") and Donald Drew ("Drew"), who had a plan to rob Michael ...

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