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Internal investigation. >> the way the case was being put out into the public was that juan moreno supposedly, according to the articles, was pressured into identifying somebody who was innocent of a crime in court. the police were being attacked for the method that they were using, that the police were using in their photo lineup. so we did an investigation. >> one of the questions for susan reed early on was, is it appropriate for your office to be involved in this investigation because she definitely had a stake in the case. >> there was no way that given that history, she could possibly be...

Independent attorney. -- inquiry. susan reed, the district attorney for san antonio for 16 years, declined the request. >> with the government denying any fault in the execution of ruben cantu, ruben's family cannot sue for damages. and the cantus aren't the only ones who have struggled to move on. >> it certainly never occurred to me that we might have gotten it wrong in the cantu case, but the one thing that is abundantly clear to me today is that if anybody got it wrong, it was me and the way i got it wrong is that i made a flawed decision and that's a mistake in judgment that i will live w...

If you are taking viberzi,... ...you should not take medicines that cause constipation. the most common side effects of viberzi... ...include constipation, nausea, and abdominal pain. stay ahead of ibs-d with viberzi. in 1985, sam millsap successfully sent juvenile offender ruben cantu to death row for the murder of pedro gomez. >> it was not a difficult decision in 1985 to prosecute the case as a capital murder case. because we had a survivor of a brutal crime who was able to identify cantu. we had a survivor of a brutal crime who was able to identify cantu. but there are things that i know

>> there's never been an executed offender in modern history exonerated. it was something that would be historic. it was going to be a story that was going to have reverberations. >> in 2005, after months of investigation, lise was ready to publish her articles about ruben cantu's innocence. but first, she had to confront former district attorney sam millsap. >> juan moreno retracting his testimony just destroyed the case. this was game-changing. and the person who could have changed this game was sam millsap, the elected district attorney, the person who decides whether we seek the death pena...

>> ruben cantu was an innocent man. young man. there was no evidence to convict him, nothing whatsoever. but he's executed. >> richard reyna was not able to save ruben's life. because the naacp hadn't hired him to investigate the case until ten years after ruben's execution. >> as long as no one is held accountable, these things are going to continue. people are going to be falsely accused, sentenced to die or even executed. >> my brother was innocent. and i just want his name cleared. when it all comes out, i want the state of texas to come out and make it public and apologize to our family. ...