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Five people, all men, all of them were appointed by republican governors. two of them are former lawmakers and the other three are law enforcement or connected with law enforcement. so that's who makes it up. e we don't know how the vote went. it has to be a majority. the simple answer is that the execution is slated to go forward. there are other appeal attempts being made. last we heard there was one going before the court of appeals, but. the u.s. supreme court already ruled on her case. that happened in 2014. so it's unclear if it would go back to the supreme court again. e we don't know. ...

We mentioned at the top of the hour that a woman on death row first to be executed in 70 years. she's been denied clemency. what's also making news the fact that we have learned that a letter essentially from the pope begging this georgia parole board to grant her cle mmency a justice and mercy. to rosa flores, who has been covering the pope for us as he's just returned home to rome from the united states. i'm just wondering. i'm sure it's too early to get reaction from the vatican, but how rare is it for a pope to intervene in a situation such as this? >> you know, we have heard pope francis ...

Lot about what hope means. and we look to the a friend of her who wrote about hope as living to the promises of god, the promises of restoration and reconciliation. those are ultimate promises that we believe are meant to be made real here on earth. and we knew we didn't have certainties either way. we were just living in the moment. and hoping for life and for clemency. >> i want to ask you about her children who i know were at the prison yesterday as well. i think they are an important part of the story. as we have learned about this letter ultimately from his holiness himself, from the pope...

It ends with this. she had no mercy, gave him no rights, no choices, nor the opportunity to live his life. his life was not hers to take. let me bring in now jennifer mcbride, an ethics and justice activist who met with kelly not even 24 hours ago. so jennifer, welcome to you. again, you're just hearing this news as we're hearing this news that she has been denied clemency. obviously, you haven't spoken to her since this has come down, but how was she doing at the prison just yesterday? >> yes, yesterday we were living in the unknown. she was, of course, under a great deal of stress and also s...

Which she's been convicted and while sympathizing with the victims, i nonetheless, implore you in consideration of the reasons that you have been presented to your board to commute the sentence o to one that would better express both justice and mercy. >> let me also read for you a statement that we have just gotten in. this is from the family of doug gissendaner. this was her husband who was killed. in the last 18 years, our mission has been to seek justice for doug's murder and to keep his memory alive. we have faith in our legal system and do believe that kelly has been afforded every right...