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Here. they say it is our law to enforce immigration laws and not the straits. that is the original case when arizona passed their law. they said the states are making things worse. how so if the states are trying to enforce their laws locally. >> no doubt. without intended action in washington to take the law in their own hand to make sure we protect our boardses and make -- borders make sure americans have a leg up in the economy. immigration is a federal matter. it belongs in the hands of the ...

Read to him and offer him an opportunity to have last words. most guys dont say a whole lot. back into the control room, we prepare to carry out the duties and communicate with the commissioners room. to ensure there have been no last minute stays and we move forward. we start the process of administering the drugs. it takes approximately 20 to 25 minutes from administering the drugs and bringing the doctors into the room, having them perform an examination and declaring death. we exit. the exec...

Their testimony that they hadnt looked at everything that i looked at. >> my reaction to that statement is hes totally wrong. the prints that we had that i had of riky jackson were more than adequate to deal with those latent prints. >> as riky jacksons fate hangs in the balance, each side argues that its interpretation of the forensics is correct. >> i think as each of the different examiners looked at it, each of them came up with certain points that they felt either matched or were unexplaina...

Forensics, the forensics aspect of the arson investigation. >> to help him, white hires an austin-based arson specialist and retired chemist named gerald hurst. hurst starts his investigation by examining the states strongest evidence, the so-called pour patterns. >> without those patterns on the floor, no case would have ever been developed. >> based on the new science, there is a different explanation for the patterns the investigators found. it is not arson. >> what occurred between 1987 when...

>> finally, willis gets the break hes been waiting 17 long years for when one of his appeals pays off. in a highly unusual step, a u.s. district court judge orders the state of texas to either retry willis or dismiss his case. he cites several factors including ineffective assistance of counsel and evidence contradicting the states theory of the fire. ori white heads up the investigation. white, a college student at the time of the crime, is now the pecos county district attorney. >> jurors want...

The new department, what theyre willing to do, is take the case file, and its an entire body of evidence, not just the captains account, not just the other witnesses accounts. theres forensics involved 37 why was natalie floating in her red down jacket and pajamas? theres lots of things to investigate here that was never investigated before. >> the captain said that he, robert wagner and christopher walken, got their stories together and they all put forth one communal voice. >> i asked dennis a...

Davis was brutally stabbed and strangled to death in his home. police in upper darby, pennsylvania, have matched fingerprints at the crime scene to riky jackson. in spite of this apparently conclusive evidence, jackson says hes innocent. >> what happened with my buddy alvin is still a shock to me because i dont think i run in those kind of circles. i was still kind of in disbelief and still thinking, oh, it will blow over. only because i knew i hadnt done it. >> to defense attorney michael mallo...

Federal funding. what do you make of that? >> i, you know, ill believe it when i see it. i sat with members of congress for three years and had them in tears, sitting in the office. put their arm around me, thank you for what youre doing, we promise well get it done. we got the act passed, but those same people are not funding the protect our children act. its $400 million over 5 years broken out into these 61 around the country that had to split, until we came around, $15 million 61 bays. theyr...

What do you make of that? >> i, you know, ill believe it when i see it. i sat with members of congress for three years and had them in tears, sitting in the office. put their arm around me, thank you for what youre doing, we promise well get it done. we got the act passed, but those same people are not funding the protect our children act. its $400 million over 5 years broken out into these 61 around the country that had to split, until we came around, $15 million 61 bays. theyre drowning in lac...

Reporting standards for alleged sexual abuse and also tie it to federal funding. what do you make of that? >> i, you know, ill believe it when i see it. i sat with members of congress for three years and had them in tears, sitting in the office. put their arm around me, thank you for what youre doing, we promise well get it done. we got the act passed, but those same people are not funding the protect our children act. its $400 million over 5 years broken out into these 61 around the country tha...