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What is it like out there tonight? >> the atmosphere right now is very thick. a lot of anticipation enter spoke with a spokeswoman for the department of corrections here in georgia, and she says they are more than midway through the execution. she believes that within ten minutes she will get some word of the official details of this execution, but this execution has already begun. now we understand that the execution has already gone through the process and are just waiting for confirmation of the details of the sequence in which this happened. instead execution table, we knew there'd be thre...

The life of troy davis to be spared, but inside that execution chamber, obviously, you have the macphail family. they've been trying to get what they call justice, and they point out that throughout this whole process, they haven't been crying for blood. they're not blood-thirsty. they say they've been thirsty for justice, ed. >> nbc news correspondent thanh truong with us tonight on the scene in jackson, georgia. let's bring in now ben jealous, president of the naacp. ben, your reaction to the news as the united states supreme court has denied the stay of execution. your thoughts? >> this is ...

When the former warden at this prison says stop. when right wing congressman bob barr, former prosecutor for georgia says stop. and so many others. that yet we just push on blindly, not knowing amid so much doubt whether we're doing the right thing or not. and it is terrifying. all we had to do was to see this sentence commute today life without the possibility of parole. and the family would know that -- one family would know that things could be reversed, the truth finally was -- we finally got the new trial that we had been fighting for. the other family would know that this man who had bee...

There are people who woke up this morning knowing that they supported the death penalty who have to be questioning, questioning how can i support it when the instrument can be so blunt that we can execute somebody even when the form head of the fbi says stop. when the former warden at this prison says stop. when right wing congressman bob barr, former prosecutor for georgia says stop. and so many others. that yet we just push on blindly, not knowing amid so much doubt whether we're doing the right thing or not. and it is terrifying. all we had to do was to see this sentence commute today life ...

Friends and family to dig deeper. how do you receive that tonight, ben? >> you know, i think he said everything that you would expect troy davis to say. this is not your typical case. this is a case where a man for 22 years has contended that he is innocent and that every year, recently every day, more and more information came forward confirming that. i first met his sister 15 years ago. and i had my doubts. but as i dug into the case more, as she dug into the case more, every year it became clearer and clearer that she was right, that troy was telling the truth. and so you would expect him t...