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In those 11 years, we've executed 672 people, including derrick o'neal mason earlier tonight. no more than one or two of those executions a year got national media attention. this year 34 people were executed in this country before troy davis. including lawrence russell brewer who was executed three hours and 47 minutes before troy davis over the protest of dick gregory. you couldn't stop troy davis' execution by just protesting troy davis' execution. the only way to stop troy davis' execution is to stop all executions. if you're outraged at troy davis' execution but weren't bothered by derric...

And alcohol. they found the brains of overweight subjects were responding to food differently than those of slender weight subjects, suggesting that gaining weight actually changed their brain connections. >> you met a woman who was battling obesity as you were doing this study. >> iris has been struggling with this for decades. when she was 9 years old she was 130 pounds and ended up at 330 pounds. she shared her story with us. >> sugar junkie. i will claim sugar junkie. i have been on restrictive diets. >> the married mom says her uncontrollable eating started in childhood. at 9 she weighed ...

In here, i imagined some kind of riotous drunk who suddenly woke up and thought, you know, i've got to get to the betty ford clinic or something or else my life's over. it doesn't really come across that way. it doesn't seem to me to be a dreadful problem that gripped you, not certainly in the likes of charlie sheen or somebody. and yet to you clearly you felt you had lost control. >> that's right. i couldn't stop. and it scared me to death. i never was doing any public drinking particularly. >> no. >> but all through my 20s i worked nightclubs with my partner, and i didn't drink. a teetotaler...

You had a few ups and downs. broadly speaking had you a great life. i-couldn't believe you had gone through 50 years in the business. i couldn't really find much evidence of vice. >> charlie sheen. >> i got over it quickly when i realized i had a problem. >> you talk graphically about your battle with alcohol. you have been clean for how long now? >> 25, more than 25 years now. >> what came through to me i was surprised by one thing. when i heard the reports of what you were going to be tackling here, i imagined some kind of riotous drunk that woke up and thought i'm going to get a belly full ...

Signature issues. but over the past few months, the gop descended into a party that questions things like the president's birth certificate and his college grades. after the death of bin laden the other day, republicans get more serious. is this their defining moment as they prepare for 2012? jonathan martin is a great reporter on politics, especially, and michael is an msnbc political analyst and national syndicated radio host. and more to the point, you have been the guy chasing -- who is that guy in "les mis" who kept chasing the guy and couldn't stop? >> john val jean. >> you have not stop...