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He was partially buried, but able to get himself out and call for help. >> the jamall of the men were i 30s, all from colorado. police in india arresting a second man in connection with the alleged rape of a 5-year-old girl. hes accused of being an accomplice and is now being transferred to new delhi for questioning and dna testing. police say the primary suspect, the girls neighbor, told them about the alleged accomplice during questioning. the neighbor allegedly kidnapped this girl, locked h...

Whether someone success executed. we have to assume some may have been before this. does that not count enough for the desire to execute others? >> i think if we have the conversation about whether or not the death penalty is a legitimate form of punishment, thats a discussion that can be had, but as far as james holmes and the death penalty as a potential punishment, i go along with him on this. i am hard core when it comes to child killers. they should be subjected to a mothers justice. thats ...

To prison that is happening. we need to think of this from the fiscal issue. is it bringing anything back? its a proven non-deterrent. >> i want to come to grover after the break on the specific point. this issue of dna testing now in which 18 people on death row have been exonerated by dna. that has to change the debate. we will have that and pop lawyer issues including the white house easter egg roll. why cant we open up the white house to toss. lets discuss after the break. its monday. a bran...

Does a wrong conviction of somebody and we dont know whether someone success executed. we have to assume some may have been before this. does that not count enough for the desire to execute others? >> i think if we have the conversation about whether or not the death penalty is a legitimate form of punishment, thats a discussion that can be had, but as far as james holmes and the death penalty as a potential punishment, i go along with him on this. i am hard core when it comes to child killers. ...

In italy youre not convicted until it goes up to appeal and 95% chance of that decision from a trial court being charged. she was convicted at the trial court level and it went up on appeal. they overturned that conviction and the family, the victims family petitioned the highest court in italy to look at it which they did and overturned the appellate court. they sent it back for a retrial. >> careen, this shouldnt be a surprise to amanda knox and her family since getting to know the italian sys...

[ female announcer ] cascades best is new cascade platinum. welcome back, alex has the day off. im thomas roberts. its time forehead lines just past the half hour. construction debris from the world trade center site will be sifted for human remains. 60 truck loads of construction debris from the site is going to be examined. city officials say dna testing will continue until every possible i.d. can be made. the epa is proposing new fuel standards part of an effort to make gas cleaner and ai...

Rebels claimed. opposition now reports it has seized full control of a key southern town. [shouting and gunfire] >> according to the associated press the rebels in the southern town are capitalizing in a recent surge in weapons shipment and waging a bament for -- battle for the southern part of the country. to secure corridor from jordan to damascus. and that is reportedly all in preparation for a siege on the capital. the rebels claim they control the southern town where the uprising against th...

Caters body washed up downstream two days later. 30 years ago, there was no dna testing. now there is. and so new evidence. remember those two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick baltazars shirt? in 2007, the hair fragments were sent to the fbis dna laboratory in quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of more than 1,100 samples of african-american hairs in its database. less than 3%. most important, wayne williams dna had the same sequence...

>> this is where the confusion with all of us came in. i got back from hotlanta records probably about 9:00, 9:30. >> but theres no one to corroborate that, even if his mother were still alive. wayne said she probably didnt see him come in. prosecutor jack mallard. >> he was out that night, no question in my mind. he was not at home. he was out and about. >> less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and cater here, police heard a splash under this bridge. caters body washed up downstr...

Nyu law professor kenji yoshino. barry shekt, co-director of the innocence project and the man in the photo. kurt bloods worth, an advocacy director at witness to innocence. i want to start with you. tell me a little bit about how your story turned into your work. >> well, in 1984, i was accused of a brutal crime that happened in maryland. a long story short, after two years on death row thanks to people like barry here, we submitted for the dna testing. i was freed. it took another ten years to...