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While were waiting for file that appeal, and while you does i to take it, please dont let the state proceed with the execution. it wouldnt make any sense to later say, yeah, were going to take this case and already have the execution already happened. thats the usual procedure. sometimes the supreme court grants these stays. last week it did, and last week it also denied a stay. theres no way to predict whats going to happen here. this case has been before the supreme court once before, they sen...

Levels? if he had this kind of legal firepower in his trial, he would have been off, it seems to me. how can they have such great legal help now and he didnt seem to have very good trial support when he was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death? where did they all come from? and where were they in the first place? >> its very often the case that the states dont spend a lot of money for people who cant afford their own lawyers and the kind of defense that people get in de...

Doesnt feel any simply for? >> as a program matter, that is partially correct. >> a great of what goes into a jurys deliberations on a death penalty case is very, very emotional. whether or not they feel any sort of sympathy or theres anything redeeming about that defense, that is indeed a lot of what goes on. >> and in this case there were two people involved, allegations always going into the trial, two people were beating up a homeless guy, an off-duty police officers, very compelling, workin...

Statements now that they believe that troy davis is innocent. they say they were coerced by police, one man saying he was too young at that time, intimidated by the police. so he told them what they wanted to hear. another witness said he made up the whole confession and made it up on what he saw and heard on tv. obviously they have differ opinions and philosophies on what that justice should not. >> great reporting, thanh trong, thank you very much. lets bring in political analyst gene robinson...

Somberly, and heaven knows texas carts them off -- some mistakes have definitely been made. if we execute troy davis tonight -- and i say we for good reason. these executions are carried out in the publics name, we could well be making another mistake. >> reverend sharpton, i have great respect for your passion. i dont always agree with you, but let me ask you about this case. when you got into this case and sympathized enough to visit with the accused. when you sat down with this fella. i remem...

Go back and look at. >> i guess its the arguments that we non-lawyers dont get, that when you appeal a case youre not looking at a view of the guilt or innocence, but whether he had a fair trial. if it looks like a fair trial, youre stuck with it, right? thats the limits of our system. >> exactly. >> okay. thanks, pete. well be watching with you. thanks so much. well be back to you, probably. bob barr was a longtime conservative republican congressman who i dont believe you have a theoretica...

It. he also communicated to the board of pa rolls and pardon here, that he had a lot of trouble with this case. you know, the saved gan are not working. to finish that story that i was telling you, we can now prove, we have a dna test, in the case of claude jones that shows that the evidence does not support of conviction of this guy. the tragedy of it is that president bush on december 7th, 2000, was not even told by his legal staff that this guy, jones lawyers had been seeking the dna test. we...

There was also junk forensic science, and the same thing happened in this case. we had what everybody agrees is a bad ballistic testimony in this matter. if if you recall during the campaign, i was seeking a stay of an execution from a governor bush for a guy, and on your show, governor bush said i will grand that stay. >> i remember that vaguely. on december 7th, 2000, the last person that jush executed was a man named claude jones. he was sentenced to die after a 3-2 decision where it was said...

You could argue if there is a case in which a death penalty is justified, that would be a case. >> talk about premedicated. >> but mistakes will be made. there will be uncertainly. i agree with you there is no perfection in human endeavor, and this is an irrevocable punishment. you cant say, oops, when new information comes out. you just cant. its gone beyond discomfort for me. >> do you think the answer is the old mario cuomo solution. if the juries were convinced that life one of these, you fa...

Supporters of capital punishment. now, democrats are mixed on the issue, a balance slightly in favor, but they struggle with this issue. republicans generally dont struggle with it, theyre all for it. in this case it looks like governor perry says he has no sleepless nights. the most recent republican president, george w. bush, and theres not an ad hominem on my part, that he never spent more than 15 minutes in studying in case he had to review. it doesnt seem to bother a texas governor with an ...