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Savannah police officer mark macphail. davis and his defense team are fighting for his life as they try to get one last reprieve in. joining me now are pulitzer prize winning columnist cynthia tucker and barry scheck of the innocence project. barry, thanks so much for joining us. how long have you been involved in studying the case of mr. davis? >> oh, i think about five, six years now, at least. >> what was your immediate interest caused by, and when did you make a judgment about his guilt or i...

released from a prison there, but were also hearing theyre still in the prison. our sources in iran say they dont actually know if they left evin prison yet. imany official a a ay officials make sure they are free. released a statement by press tv that their detention sentence has been commuted and they have been released on bail, a lot of speculation is once they are released, they will head to iman. . the reason there is that speculation is it played a part in securing the release of...

that we seek. the question is, how do we reach that goal? and i am convinced that there is no shortcut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades. peace is hard work. peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the united nations. if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now. ultimately, it is the israelis and the palestinians who must live side by side. >> immediately after that speech, the president met with israeli prime minister benjamin net...

either changed their stories or recanted their testimony, raising doubts that have gone global. anti-death penalty protesters are out in force tonight in georgia and over time, the pope, nobel peace prize laureates, desmond too tou and jimmy carter have been among those who have appealed for leniency or a new trial. the original prosecutor in the case say they are executing the right man tonight. >> there are two troy davis cases. there is the legal case, the case in court, and the pub...

welcome to "american morning." >> good morning to you, and to you. it is a busy week. breaking news. freedom coming for two u.s. hikers held priter in in iran. they could be out with the half hour. right to mohammed jamjoon covering this. whats the latest? >> reporter: well, ali, weve heard from a lawyer from the the two detained hikers tells us a second judge in iran has signed the paperwork, the bail paperwork for josh fattal and shane bauer. the lawyer says now he can take that pape...

davis got the death penalty for the murder of a savannah police officer back in 1989, no dna evidence ever linked davis to the crime. most of the witnesses who testified against him recanted. but the man who prosecuted davis stands by his case. >> there are two troy davis cases. there is the legal case. the case in court. and the public relations case. we have consistently won the case as its been presented in court. we have consistently lost the case as its been presented in the publi...

Now on "andrea mitchell reports" -- the georgia pardon board rejected a last-ditch effort to save inmate troy davis from the death penalty despite international support for the death row inmate from jimmy carter and the pope among others. davis is set to die by injection tomorrow for the murder of an off-duty police officer mark macphail in 1989. daviss supporters raised doubts about his guilt. the lawyer for the two american hikers jailed by iran for more than two years was sent home from cou...

Mark macphail. both say they believe troy davis is guilty. they followed this trial, obviously, intently, as family members from the beginning and they hope to gain peace from this execution. lets listen to them. >> it has been hell, because i want -- i would like to have some peace. i would like to have this situation over with. we are the victims. and those people that recanted, why did they wait 17 years before they recanted? they should have done it if they felt that way earlier. not when th...

Raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. >> will it pass? no. will it win over middle class voters? well see. one thing it will do is give the president a stark, well-known plan to begin the upcoming november fight over debt reduction. plus, barack obama has been incredibly lucky in his opponents so far, from an absurdly weak candidate in his senate race to john mccain, who seemed well off his game of eight years before. could the...

One of them, many accused of being the gunman. so we said there was clearly no basis to execute a man when you had this much reasonable doubt. >> what happened in that testimony today? did that person actually come forward, under oath, with the parole board and say it was the other guy? >> i do not know if that person has testified yet. theyre in closed testimony. i do know theres been testimony by one of the jurors in the case that said that if they had, in fact, known that the ballistics didnt...