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>> during the time rhonda was pushing for death for her son's killers, nathan dunlap continued to work on his appeals. >> this was not a chance to proof that he was innocent, to set dunlap free. the focus was on his mental health and any other mitigating factors that could have gone into a jury's decision about whether he should be put to death. >> nathan dunlap's attorneys make a pretty powerful case about bipolarity saying this was not properly explored. in the original case. >> by 2006, prison doctors had finally diagnosed nathan as bipolar and put him on the powerful drug, lithium. once me...

>> by 2006, prison doctors had finally diagnosed nathan as bipolar and put him on the powerful drug, lithium. once medicated, nathan's behavior on death row changed radically, and he became a model prisoner. >> he was an entirely different person from the young man even that i knew. so it certainly has to be a part of why he did what he did. >> as nathan's appeals were being reviewed by the courts, a movement to fully ban capital punishment in colorado was picking up speed. >> i think that america has hopelessly entangled two concepts. one is justice, and the other is vengeance. and we need to...

An accident saying "there is not a single item of physical evidence in this case which supports a finding of arson." >> the willis case is based solely on old wives' tales that have been long disproved and that should be known by everybody in the industry. an amateur could have taken this case who had in his mind a one-page list of old wives' tales, could have taken a checklist on the willis fire and said, no, that's caused by flashover, no, that's caused by flashover. accelerants can't do that, and you wind up with nothing. >> there's one last thing. what about willis' so-called remorseless b...

That. executing someone who really does not know what's going on. >> that's right. let me first start by saying amnesty campaigns to abolish the death penalty in every state in this country and around the world and we do that because to take someone's life to sanction the killing of an individual is the ultimate denial of human rights. it's cruel, it's inhumane, it's brutal. in the case of john ferguson, this is a man whose life was taken last night by the state of florida despite the fact that government doctors, prison doctors diagnosed him with paranoid schizophrenia. at the age of 17 john ...

Gabriel giffords and 18 others wants to plead guilty. jared lee loughner will have a chance to enter that plea in court on tuesday. nbc news correspondent diana alvear was in tucson the day of the shooting reporting on it. good morning to you. let's go right to what's going to happen on tuesday when loughner is in court. >> alex, good morning. the federal judge handling the case has scheduled a status hearing for this coming tuesday to get an update from prison doctors that are treating jared loughner. he's been undergoing treatment in a bureau of prisons hospital since shortly after that shoo...