Brussels, 20/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - The EU high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Catherine Ashton, has called on the United States to commute the sentence of execution upon Troy Davis, who is to be executed on Wednesday 21 September. Troy Davis, a black American aged 42, was sentenced to death in the state of Georgia for killing a white policeman in 1989. The EU has followed this case “with great concern”, said Ashton, pointing out that “serious and compelling doubts have persistently surrounded the evidence on which Mr Davis was convicted, and these were recognised by the appeal judges”. The EU foreign policy chief goes on to recall that “with capital punishment, any miscarriage of justice, from which no legal system is immune, represents an irreversible loss of human life”. Ashton reaffirmed the EU's “principled and longstanding opposition to the use of capital punishment”. (CG/transl.jl)