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Information tonight, barry? >> well, you know, ed, i want to add one important factor to what ari listed about this case. and that has to do with the ballistics evidence. everybody agrees, the georgia bureau of investigation agrees, that ballistics evidence that was put before the jury, that in an effort to tie a gun and a motive to troy davis, was unreliable and should never have gone before the jury. unreliable forensic evidence. indeed, one of the jurors told the board of pardon and paroles y...

That isnt true, why that didnt happen, and theres a lot of, unfortunately, in our system, a lot of people just want to say, we wont admit a mistake. if we give him life without parole, that is admission of a mistake and people will begin to doubt the legitimacy of the system. and quite the contrary. people have got to doubt the legitimacy of this system if a man could be executed when theres this much doubt about his guilt. >> mr. scheck, were you surprised by the supreme court response tonight?...

And msnbc and cnn and others who had expressed interest several weeks ago. and he ended the conversation by saying he had been on law enforcement in savannah 22 years, as if this should matter. as if a former law enforcement official in savannah, he shouldnt be more interested than anybody in making sure that the right killer is brought to justice. justice has to be precise. when justice becomes blunt, when it just seems like anybody will do, then weve slipped into vengeance of the worst kind. a...

Me by telephone tonight. mr. scheck, your response tonight news tonight that the united states supreme court has denied the stay of execution of troy anthony davis? >> well, its a very tragic day for our country. i think its now clear to everyone in america that our capital justice system is broken. you know, boards of pardon and parole are supposed to act as a safety valve for the system. as a very famous case, herrera, out of the united states supreme court, where scalia and thomas in their di...

Were all african-american. that all fits in and we have to press how this system works in the united states. >> i am so troubled tonight of the fact there is a woman who spoke with ben jealous, told her life was threatened and she had to move and she had been told by someone who said he was the killer and yet there was no one in the system that could take that information and follow up on it. thats what i find oh terribly troubling, that that, whether this gentleman was innocent or guilty tonigh...

The procedure began. about 15 minutes later it was over. >> welcome back to the ed show here on msnbc and our ongoing coverage of the execution of troy anthony davis. joining me now to discuss the legal aspect of this story is lawyer and columnist to "the nation" magazine ari melber. also joining us on the phone is barry scheck, co-founder of the innocence project. thanks to both of you for joining us tonight. ari, lets start with you first. were there aspects of this case that made it more an i...

17 of those people, i would highlight, were at one time on death row. and lastly, 166 of those 273 post-conviction exonerations were people who were african-americans. so that all fits in to the real questions we have to continue to press about how this system works in the united states. >> i am so troubled tonight by the fact that there was a woman that spoke with ben jealous who said that she had been told that her life was threatened and that she had to move and that she had been told by some...

Then he put his head back down. the procedure began. about 15 minutes later it was over. >> welcome back to the ed show here on msnbc and our ongoing coverage of the execution of troy anthony davis. joining me now to discuss the legal aspect of this story is lawyer and columnist to "the nation" magazine ari melber. also joining us on the phone is barry scheck, co-founder of the innocence project. thanks to both of you for joining us tonight. ari, lets start with you first. were there aspects of ...

The procedure began and in 15 minutes later, it was over. welcome back to "the ed show." our ongoing coverage of troy anthony davis. joining me now to discuss the legal aspect of this story is lawyer and columnist of the nation magazine,ary melbourne and joining us is barry scheck, cofound ir of "the innocence project." thanks for joining me tonight. >> were there aspects of this case that made it more of an important one for a stay of execution and tonights result? >> absolutely. one person s...

In the way we view this. this has been gut-wrenching to watch and i think that there are, as i speak tonight, i think that there probably are a lot of americ americans really wondering if this man is guilty and did our system really fail? is this the number one case to point to in our judicial system and in our countrys history that tells us that we are going down the wrong road? barry scheck, weve got to move along, of the innocence project, we appreciate your time tonight. and thank you so muc...