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Supreme court had rejected his final appeal. >> [ inaudible ] >> his brother named william and-mark mcfail jr. >> no. mark mcfail leaned forward through the whole process and his uncle, william mcfail sat back. neither seemed to move at all. >> they spent the entire time just staring at troy davis, never turned their heads, never did anything but stare ahead. then when it was over, as they were leaving they hugged somebody and they seemed to smile about it. so the mcfail family, at least, they seemed to get some satisfaction from what happened. >> what was there from the mcfail family? >> pard...

>> in terms of the victim's family here, the relatives of officer macphail say the efforts to cast troy davis as a victim of a miscarriage of justice here are not only not things they agree with but that they feel like they have been victimized by the length of time it has taken to resolve this case and that they feel hurt by the continued prodistations of the guilt when they feel like he's been convicted. how does that make you feel about the advocacy for troy davis and movement to support him which the naacp has been so involved with? >> we're very clear that officer macphail that he was a h...

Substantially for many of those gathered outside that prison, about troy davis, the man, about whether he is the man that killed officer mark macphail. sentencing him for death for the broader attention to this case, it is in the larger sense a question about the death penalty. one detail that i would draw your attention to is the means by which troy davis is being killed right now in the state of georgia. the state of georgia, like other a lethal injection states used to rely on a drug cocktail that start with sodium-tall. in small -- when that drug stopped being made in the united states, it...

Department of corrections cordoned off protesters. right inside is the family of troy davis. i saw a couple of his sisters and also his nephew. and speaking to them throughout, in the days leading up to this execution, they've been saying, look, this is not just justice for troy davis but they believe because there's another man, they believe another man committed this crime. they believe that in seeking justice for troy davis they believe that they would be giving justice to the family of officer macphail who was shot and murdered in 1989 that set this whole situation into motion at this poin...

Troy anthony davis, who was pronounced dead tonight at 11:08 eastern time in the death chamber at the jackson, georgia facility. defiant was the word that was used to describe him. a somber mood, obviously in the chamber as reported by john lewis from wsb radio in georgia. and talking to his friends and family, a message for them to dig deeper and find the truth about what happened and telling the mcfail family that he did not have a gun and he was not responsible for the death of officer mcfail. i'm joined now by the president and ceo of the naacp, ben gellis joining me by phone tonight. ben,...