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I wondered at the time if our lack of familiarity as a culture and even in courtrooms with dn am technology and dna signs as part of it. when barry schect stood up there, how about that, mr. fong? i wondered then, these jurors are lost. >> you have to remember, this was in the backdrop of the rodney king acquittal of police officers and the riots in 92. 50 people were killed, 2,000 injured. part of l.a. was burning down. there was this awful tinder box with the afro american community and law enforcement in the early 90s. you had 11 afro american jurors on the case, you know, with o.j. simpson...

I can't see the justification. if we're just reaping vengeance for somebody, i don't see the justification in that either. i talked to a lot of families of victims who didn't feel fulfilled after the execution took place. i can't speak for all the families of victims, but i know i've talked to many. >> dr. allen alt and rachel maddow, thank you for staying with us. coming up, next, barry schect of the innocent project and barry. stay with us.

What about this piece of information tonight, barry? >> ed, i want to add one important factor listed about this case, the ballistics evidence put before the jury in an effort to tie a gun and motive to troy davis was unreliable and should never have gone before the jury. unreliable frick evidence. one of the jurors told the board of pardon and paroles, if she had known that evidence was unreliable, she would have never voted to execute him and played a lot role injury deliberations. i raise that because innocent project we have 270 post conviction dna exonerations and in many cases we usually...

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