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davis got the death penalty for the murder of a savannah police officer back in 1989, no dna evidence ever linked davis to the crime. most of the witnesses who testified against him recanted. but the man who prosecuted davis stands by his case. >> there are two troy davis cases. there is the legal case. the case in court. and the public relations case. we have consistently won the case as it's been presented in court. we have consistently lost the case as it's been presented in the public realm on tv and else where. prominent figures from former president jimmy carter to pope bened...

Now on "andrea mitchell reports" -- the georgia pardon board rejected a last-ditch effort to save inmate troy davis from the death penalty despite international support for the death row inmate from jimmy carter and the pope among others. davis is set to die by injection tomorrow for the murder of an off-duty police officer mark macphail in 1989. davis's supporters raised doubts about his guilt. the lawyer for the two american hikers jailed by iran for more than two years was sent home from court today. a second judge now needs to sign off on their release and he was a no-show. jane bauer an...

Mark macphail. both say they believe troy davis is guilty. they followed this trial, obviously, intently, as family members from the beginning and they hope to gain peace from this execution. let's listen to them. >> it has been hell, because i want -- i would like to have some peace. i would like to have this situation over with. we are the victims. and those people that recanted, why did they wait 17 years before they recanted? they should have done it if they felt that way earlier. not when the final, final time that as come now. >> it's brought right back up to the forefront, and those wou...

Raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. >> will it pass? no. will it win over middle class voters? we'll see. one thing it will do is give the president a stark, well-known plan to begin the upcoming november fight over debt reduction. plus, barack obama has been incredibly lucky in his opponents so far, from an absurdly weak candidate in his senate race to john mccain, who seemed well off his game of eight years before. could the republicans be handing mr. obama another gift? this one named rick perry, who scares off the middl...

One of them, many accused of being the gunman. so we said there was clearly no basis to execute a man when you had this much reasonable doubt. >> what happened in that testimony today? did that person actually come forward, under oath, with the parole board and say it was the other guy? >> i do not know if that person has testified yet. they're in closed testimony. i do know there's been testimony by one of the jurors in the case that said that if they had, in fact, known that the ballistics didn't match, there had been, apparently, a shooting earlier in the day of this shooting, and the jury ...