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Didn't recant his testimony and maintained it was davis. it's a messy case. what's made it messy is recan tagss came out ten years after the fact. >> why do you think this case -- i was sort of struck by, first of all, how powerful the movement to sort of save troy davis was but also how galvanizing it was. why do you think this case captured people's imagination or attention? >> clearly, the possibility of his innocence. i think that was very compelling to people, especially after we've seen 138 death row exonerations in this country, you know, since 1976. that's a huge number. we have this r...

Entirely know because it was 20 years ago. you gave a pretty good summary of what people say about this case. what happened in 1989 was that mark macphail, off-duty police officer was coming to the rescue of a homeless man being beaten by a group of people. among -- within that group somewhere was troy davis, although it's not entirely clear. there's obviously all of these accounts that have come out after the fact. the point is macphail was shot and killed. and at least nine nonpolice witnesses claimed to have seen this happened. it was on those testimonies that the conviction hinged. otherwi...

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