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Front of the board saying she is a supporter of the death penalty, said she would never have voted to execute mr. davis, if she would have known they were fired from the same gun. you look at bill sessions, prodeath penalty, mark white, former governor of texas, executed 22 people. was an attorney general in that case. bob barr, from georgia. they say there is too much doubt in this case. shouldn't be an execution. >> the other guy involved in beating up the homeless person somehow got a gun with the same ballistic evidence left behind as apparently the guy convicted of this crime. got ahold o...

There. the first person that came forward, he said troy davis did it. he knew troy was at the scene. >> i thought they were both involved in beating up the homeless guy. >> it is not clear that is an allegation. the point is that davis came upon coles beating up the guy. coal system saying the opposite. there are no incredible eyewitnesses. >> i am trying to figure out what is the reasonable argument, that something else happened. >> there is plenty of reasonable arguments. >> what did happen then? >> well, the defense theory is a simple one. that coles is a guy that did the shooting, it was h...

You would never do this. then after that there were seven recantations by witnesses that they were really coerced by the police into making these identifications in the first instance, and then there were admissions by a man named red coles who was one of the alleged witness here, who the defense always alleged that he was the real perpetrator, that he had really committed the crime, and finally, and this happened after the georgia court got it, and it's the subject of the latest appeal. it now turns out that there was forensic evidence, a bullet that was recovered from officer macphail. it wa...

Would have voted to execute troy davis if she had known that those bullets were not fired from the same gun. so when you put all this together and you look at bill sessions, pro-death penalty, former head of the fbi, former federal judge, mark white, a former governor of texas who himself executed 22 people and was an attorney general in that state, bob barr, a congressman from georgia, these are pro death penalty people who are saying there's just too much doubt in this case that there shouldn't be an execution. >> so the argument is that the other guy involved in beating up that homeless per...